Civil Rights Movement

Question 1

Rosa Parks?

Answer 1

• She catalysed the civil rights movement
• She refused to give up her bus seat to a white person. On the 1st of Dec 1955, at 42 years of age.
• Parks knew she had a right to keep her seat because she was sitting in the seats allocated for black people.
• She was arrested, trailed and fined $10 for this.
• She started the Bus boycott, in which black people refuse to use the bus services for 13 months, causing the bus companies to not make money and therefore stop segregation on buses.
• Many people thought she shouldn’t have been arrested and this attracted more people to join the boycott.

Question 2

Martin Luther King?

Answer 2

• He became the leader of the bus boycott, because he heard the voice of Jesus telling him to, “Stand up for righteousness and for justice.”
• He lead the Montgomery Improvement Association
• He had a peaceful approach to equality and desegregation
• He lead peaceful protests, such as the bus boycott which was a huge success
• he was assasinated on the 4th of April 1968

Question 3

Slavery

Answer 3

The condition in which a person is owned as property by the other and is under the owners control.

Question 4

Segregation

Answer 4

The separation of races in every day life as presented by law.

Question 5

Boycott

Answer 5

To refuse to have dealings with the person to this organisation or refuse to buy a product as a protest.

Question 6

NAACP

Answer 6

National Association for the advancement of coloured people.

Question 7

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 7

A secret society organised in the south after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy through terrorism.

Question 8

Supreme Court

Answer 8

The highest federal court in the USA with authority over all courts

Question 9

Order of events:

Answer 9

Brown VS Board of Education
Emmett Till Murder
Rosa Parks Refusal
Montgomery Bus Boycott 
Little Rock High School
Civil rights act 
Voting rights act

Question 10

Emmet Till?

Answer 10

• Born in 1941, Chicago
• He was sent to Money, Mississippi (1955, 14 yrs)
• He was murdered and beaten by a white man called Mr Bryant
• This is because he was flirting or messing around with Mrs Bryant
• At court black witnesses were afraid to testify
• The white men who killed him (Bryant and Milman) denied it in court and were not charged, because the jury was racist.
• Even after the killers confessed they couldn’t be trailed again.
• This was the start of the civil rights movement.