Modern Civil Rights Movement/Post WWII

Question 1

After the war, which laws were still enforced?

Answer 1

Jim Crow Laws

Question 2

What did the president at the time do to help?

Answer 2

Truman made an executive order that outlawed segregation in the armed forces

Question 3

Case that legalized the separate but equal concept

Answer 3

Plessy vs. Fergusson

Question 4

Which case overruled the ruling of “separate but equal” (promoted by NAACP) that declared this ruling unconstitutional?

Answer 4

Brown vs. Board of Education

Question 5

What event happened after this case?

Answer 5

GA state flag is changed in 1956 to those used by hate groups as an act of resistance to the case.

Question 6

Lester Maddox

Answer 6

Last overtly segragtionist governer that appointed many AA’s to gov. positions

Served as Liet. gov. after gov. and clashed frequently w/Jimmy Carter

Never changed his view

Opened restaurant but closed it after not wanting integration

Question 7

Sibley comission

Answer 7

Gov. Ernest Vandiver had to make a decision to close or integrate schools

John Sibley was a segregationist lawyer that pushed schools to desegregate on a limited basis depite holding hearings that said otherwise

Question 8

First 2 AA students

Answer 8

Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes