Civil Rights in the USA

Question 1

when was the civil rights in the USA

Answer 1

19000 to 1980s

Question 2

what does the KKK stand for and what were they

Answer 2

The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was an organization that despised black people and rebelled against them with hate and violence

Question 3

What were the Jim Crow laws and who was Jim Crow

Answer 3

The Jim Crow Laws were laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States and Jim Crow is a fictional white character pretending to be black and is very stereotypical

Question 4

how long did the Jim Crow Laws last

Answer 4

1877-1965

Question 5

What did the Jim Crow Laws do to take away African American rights

Answer 5

The Jim Crow Laws were able to segregate in: marriage, entertainment (parks), hospitals, housing, voting, adoptions, restaurants and transportation

Question 6

What were the KKK methods

Answer 6

lynching, attacks, banners, set fire to crosses, fear

Question 7

What was the NAACP

Answer 7

The NAACP was the National Association of Advancement of Colored People

Question 8

What was the CORE

Answer 8

Congress of Racial Equality

Question 9

What did the NAACP and CORE do

Answer 9

They stepped up their campaigns and challenged that black people should not be segregated in schools. They challenged the whites using federal courts and campaigns

Question 10

What were the whites able to study

Answer 10

medicine, law, pharmacy, social work, library science

Question 11

What were the blacks able t study

Answer 11

law and library sciences

Question 12

when was the trial of Brown VS Topeka

Answer 12

December 1952

Question 13

Why was there this court case (Brown VS Topeka)

Answer 13

The NAACP was helping the Browns to fight against segregation in Topeka, Kansas. In 1951,Linda Brown, a 7 year old girl, would walk 1-mile everyday to go to her black elementary school, even though there was a white school closer. Her dad, a pastor, saw this morally wrong and went to the white school to enroll his daughter but they refused. He went to the NAACP so that they can help him and they did and they took the case to the supreme court.

Question 14

what happened to the case

Answer 14

They ruled in Brown’s favor. Schools were illegal to b segregated in 1954

Question 15

What was the Montgomery bus boycott

Answer 15

The Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 was started by Rosa Parks, who sat on a white seat in a bus and refused to get up. She was then arrested and taken to jail. After that, the boycott was extended and demanded that the company should seat all passengers on a first come basis. This went on for 381 days until the bus company gave in because they were losing lots of money.

Question 16

who were the freedom riders

Answer 16

Freedom Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals.

Question 17

What did the Freedom Riders do

Answer 17

in May 1961 200 black people rode the bus to Montgomery, Alabama to deliberately desegregate public transportation.

Question 18

Who were the SNCC

Answer 18

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

Question 19

How did the Freedom Riders end

Answer 19

it ended with a lot of violence with 200 protestors thrown in jail for 40 days. The SNCC repeated the ‘Freedom Riders’ campaign but this time they had protection as John F. Kennedy ordered for the mayor to do so

Question 20

What were the lunch sit-ins

Answer 20

They were a campaign started by the SNCC in 1960 North Carolina to desegregate restaurants .

Question 21

How did the sit-ins happen

Answer 21

First day, 4 black people decided to sit on white people seats as the white people had seats to eat and the black had to stand and eat. After that more and more black people came to diners until in the end of 1960 121 cities had been desegregated. The protests continued in restaurants, libraries and churches.

Question 22

Who were the Black Panther party

Answer 22

they were an organization that protected themselves against the police using weapons. They wanted freedom, decent housing, hey wanted their rights back just like the Jews got from the Germans, end to police brutality, education, freedom for black men that didn’t have a fair trial and also to be judged by the black community

Question 23

Who was MLK

Answer 23

MLK was the leader of the year long boycott. He became the face of civil rights movement. He was influenced by Gandhi who believed in non-violence. MLK believed in fairness, forgiveness. MLK organized demonstrations of which in 1963, chief Conner came with fire hoses, electrical wire, and dogs. They arrested 3,000 people including King.

Question 24

What did Martin Luther king organize

Answer 24

In August 1963 he organized a March in Washington D.C 250,000 demonstration were there, including 60,000 whites. This forced Kennedy to take action. In that march, MLK delivered the ‘I have a dream’ speech.

Question 25

when was MLK assassinated

Answer 25

in 1968

Question 26

Who was Malcolm X

Answer 26

Malcolm X believed in violence and self-defense if the blacks were every attacked. He set up the Nation of Islam and argued for black separatism. Worst riot was in Watts L.A in 1965 which lasted 6 days. 34 people died.

Question 27

When was Malcolm X assassinated

Answer 27

in 1965