Martin Luther King Flashcards
Who was Martin Luther King’s vision inspiration from
The Indian Mahatma Ghandi
In 1954 what was Martin Luther King
The young Baptist minister of a rich folks church in Montgomery Alabama
What did the Indian Mahatma Gandhi promote the example off
Nonviolent campaign of passive resistance
He did this against British rule in India in the 1940s
When did King first-come into public notice. And how
Came to public notice in 1955 when-as leader of Montgomery bus boycotts-house was bombed however he declared: we must meet violence with nonviolence.
What did Martin Luther King rise to be (Think civil rights movement)
D hero and figurehead of the civil rights movement
What had the NAACP achieved by the time kings starting his campaign
They achieved a number of legal successes
Who was the NAACP’s leader
Thurgood Marshall
What did Thurgood Marshall remark after King’s success in Montgomery bus boycott
‘All that walking for nothing’
What was the difference between the boycott and NAACP in ending segregation
The boycott had not secured the end of segregation on Montgomery buses Whereas the NAACP had through the Supreme Court
Since when had the CORE been campaigning
Since the Second World War
When did king found the southern Christian leadership conference
1957
What was wrong with the SCLC
It is poorly organised
male, educated church ministers who ran it were pompous and quarrelsome
Which sit-in was the first
Greensboro sit-in in North Carolina
When was the first sit in
1960
Give details on the Greensboro sit-in
For college students go to local Woolworth store and sat down in white section of lunch counter
What happened on the first day of the Greensboro sit in
The students are simply ignored
How many students came to Woolworths on the following day and what happened on this day
30 students
Got into local newspaper
How many students went to Woolworths the day after they got into the local newspaper
66 black students
What happened after a week of escalating trouble with the sit ins
There was a bomb threat and the store was forced to close
What did the Greensboro protest result in
The protest immediately spawned copycat sit ins all over the south
How many students were involved in the copycat sit-ins
Perhaps 50,000 students in all
What happened to the protesters when they protested
They were humiliated and assaulted
Not all managed not to fight back
What did Greensboro’s NAACP organisation manage to do (2 things)
They have managed to register large numbers of black voters
Had even got black counsellors elected
What was the result of black counsellors being a minority on the council in Greensboro
They could not reform segregation and their presence on the council simply made it look as though they supported the councils segregation policies
