Pillar of Fire Flashcards
Vernon Dahmer
Murdered in Hattiesburg Mississippi, Jan 1966
He tried to get people to register to vote - he was targeted and threatened
He and his wife stayed up at night to guard their house they slept in shifts
His house was fired bombed, he died of smoke inhalation
Four sons in the military
What school was James Meredith trying to get into and when
September 20 - 1962 - University of Mississippi
What did JFK do to get James Meredith into Mississippi State?
JFK issues cease and desist order
4,000 National Guard Troops nationalized
108th Armored Cavalry Regiment of the Mississippi National Guard
What was the Battle of Oxford?
This was the rioting in the University of Miss with the admission of James Meredith
The two people who were killed were not rioting or resisting.
One was a guy who just went there to see what was going on
Another was a British reporter who was shot in the back
Who was Herbert Lee?
1961 - shot in broad daylight by state rep Eugene Hurst
Liberty Mississippi Sept 25
All white jury acquitted Hurst - said it was self defense (Lee came at him with a tire iron?)
What happened to protesters of the Herbert Lee murder
Robert Moses got some SNCC students and local high school students to march
SNCC kids thrown in jail - drunk tank
Moses taken to Amite county line and told to leave
Who was Louis Allen?
Murdered in January 1964
He testified in the Eugene Hurst Trial, falsely claimed Lee had pipe in his hand - helped fake self defense Hurst claim
Started to talk to Justice Dept, harassed by local police
then murdered
Who was Medgar Evars
Murdered in his driveway in June 1963
Byron De La Beckwith two hung juries - finally convicted in 1994
Evars worked with NAACP, investigated Emmett Till and tried to get into U of MS Law School
Emmett Till - how old what he he when murdered and when did it happen?
14 Years old - August 1955
What was Delta Famine
1963 Sunflower and LeFlore counties in Mississippi decline federal food assistance as resistance to Civil Rights Movement
(Leflore County was where Till was murdered)
Who was murdered in January of 1964 becuase he witnessed the murder of Herbert Lee?
Louis Allen
Who murdered Herbert Lee in broad daylight?
Eugene Herbts
Who was the Civil RIghts Activist murdered in June 1963 - he was field secretary for the NAACP
Medgar Evars
Who wa a major organizer of the 1963 March on Washington but gets almost no credit for it?
Bayard Rustin
What was the longest speech in Senate history?
Robert Byrd - Democrat of West VA - against the Civil Rights Bill of 1964
What’s the name of the hotel and it’s owner who poured acid in the pool water after he saw black kids swimming in it?
St. Augustine, Monson Hotel, William Brock
What was the name of the Kennedy mistress sent back to East Germany
Ellen Rometsch
Who was the Gov of Mississippi State who “stood in the doorway” to keep James Meredith out?
Gov Ross Barnett stood in the doorway
How many troops were sent to University of Mississippi?
23,000 during the Cuban missile crisis
When was the Letter from a Birmingham Jail written?
May of 1963
What was the official name of the March on Washington?
March for Jobs and Freedom
What preparations were made in response to fear for the March on Washington ?
- 2 Baseball games were cancelled
- 19,000 troops were in suburbs ready to go
When were women finally admitted to the National Press Club?
1971
What was the name of the county from which three Civil Rights workers were murdered (Mississippi Burning) and the same county from which Reagan announced his candidacy for president in 1980
Nashoba County, Mississippi
What are the names of the three Civil Rights workers murdered in Mississippi in 1964?
Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney
When did King wing the Nobel Prize and what happened in Oslo when he got it
1964 - the FBI reported that police were going to arrest a prostitute coming out of King’s brother’s room - Bayard Rustin talked them out of it
What did Strom Thurmond say about Freedom in the election of 1964?
Should Democrats prevail, freedom, as we know it in this country, is gone.
What was both common and unusual about the burial of the three Civil Rights workers murdered in Mississippi in August of 1964?
They were buried in segregated cemeteries
What was the month and year of Gulf of Tonkin?
August 1964
When could someone argue the phrase “Black Power” was born?
Stokely Charmichael was new chairman of SNCC in Mississippi in 1964 (SCLC and CORE were also coming into the state) and he was arrested in Greenwood, MS. After release when asked how many times he had been arrested, he said that black people had to take power for themselves - and this was the beginning of “black power”
