People

Question 1

Daisy Bates?

Answer 1

Co-owner of the Arkansas Press,
President of the NAACP,
Little Rock 9 met at her home.

Question 2

Viola Liuzzo?

Answer 2

White housewife from Detroit killed in Alabama after the Selma march.
She was driving a black activist home and was shot by a KKK member.

Question 3

Medgar Evers?

Answer 3

WWII veteran,
Civil Rights activist,
shot and killed in his driveway

Question 4

Michael Schwerner? (Andrew Goodman & James Cheney)

Answer 4

White man working to register black voters and was targeted by the KKK.
Arrested with Goodman & Cheney.
After they were released they were taken by the KKK and were shot, killed, and buried by them.

Question 5

Jimmie Lee Jackson?

Answer 5

Black civil rights activist who worked as a hospital aid who tried to protect a family member and was shot by a white policeman.
He was taken to a white hospital where he was refused so they took him to a black hospital, but he had died by then.
His death sparked Bloody Sunday march.

Question 6

Rev. James Reeb?

Answer 6

White minister who participated in the successful Selma march.
He was beaten to death by Klan-type guys with clubs

Question 7

Vernon Dahmer?

Answer 7

Black man who lived between Selma and Montgomery who owned his own general store.
He helped register blacks to vote in his store and would pay their registration fees.
KKK set his house on fire.
He died from smoke inhalation shortly after.

Question 8

4 Little Girls?

Answer 8

Killed in church bombing in Birmingham. Birmingham nick-named Bombingham.