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Racial Tensions And Civil Right Campaign In The 1950s And 60s Flashcards

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What law allowed segregation on what?

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Jim Crow law allowed segregation on everyday facilities

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How was violence affecting African Americans?

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Some states used violence as a threat to African Americans who tries to vote and only 5% of the African Americans in Mississippi were registered to vote

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Give an example of white prejudice against African Americans

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White juries would always side with whites accused of killing African Americans

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Who was Oliver Brown?

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The father of a black girl who had to walk to miles to get to a black school

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What was the Supreme Court?

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America’s highest court which mainly ended segregation in schools

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What was the NAACP?

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National Association for the advancement of coloured people which aimed to remove segregation

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Why did segregation remain in Mississippi?

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A White Citizens council formed to ensure segregation would remain and did in six southern states including Mississippi

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When did towns and cities begin to desegregate their schools?

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After the Supreme Court ruling in 1954

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What did Oliver Brown’s case prove?

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Legal procedures and formally speaking to the court can make changes

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Where was the Little Rock case?

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Little Rock high school in Arkansas (a southern state)

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When did the Little Rock case happen?

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September 1947

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What was the Little Rock case?

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Where 9 students including Elizabeth Rockford tried to enter a white school when segregation was illegal and national guards were there to stop them getting in. Elizabeth went in alone and everyone wanted to lynch her but a white woman helped her and made sure she got away on a bus

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What was the results of the Little Rock Case?

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The president sent federal forces to escort the nine childeren so they could go to school

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What was the civil rights movement?

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Where African Americans wanted equal rights in everything like education and job opportunities between the 1950s and 1960s

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Who was Rosa Parks?

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A 42 year old civil rights activist and secretary of the local NAACP

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When did Rosa Parks not stand up for a white person and where?

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On the 1st of September 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama where Parks was arrested and fined $10 for breaking bus law

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What was the MIA?

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The Montgomery Improvement Association formed after Parks’ arrest and called a boycott fir all city buses

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Who was chosen to lead the bus boycott and join the MIA?

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A 26 year old church preacher called Martin Luther king

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What happened on the first day of the boycott?

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10,000 to 15,000 buses were empty

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Why was the bus boycott a problem?

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African Americans provided 75% of the bus company’s business

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How did the whites try to solve the boycott?

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Arrested Martin Luther twice, made carpools illegal and set homes and churches on fire

22
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What was the effect of the bus boycott?

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The Supreme Court made segregation in buses in Montgomery illegal

23
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How did African Americans get around during the bus boycott?

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They set up a carpool that carried around 2/3 of the people buses would have carried and the rest walked

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What was direct action?

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An action seeking to achieve an immediate/direct result like a strike

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Name some civil rights groups that staged many peaceful protests after the success of the bus boycott

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  • Southern Christian leadership conference (SCLC)
  • Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
  • Congress Of Racial Equality (CORE)
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What was the spring1963 Birmingham Campaign?

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organised by the SCLC to highlight integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama

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What was the white people’s reaction to the 1963 Birmingham campaign?

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Dogs were unleashed on campaigners and over 1000 were arrested, 500 being children and hosepipes soaked people

28
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What were the results of the 1963 Birmingham campaign?

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JF Kennedy got involved and civil rights legislations followed

29
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What was the 1960 Greensborough sit in?

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Non-violent protests in North Carolina against a segregated lunch counter in Greensborough organised by Ezell Blair Jr and 3 other men

30
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What was the whites reaction to the Greensborough sit in?

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The manager called the police but couldn’t do anything as they were paying customers who were not violent

31
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What was the results of the Greensborough sit in?

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Most dining facilities became integrated in the south

32
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Why was Malcom X famous?

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He made Muhammad Ali join his movement and preached black superiority NOT EQUAL RIGHTS

33
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When was Malcom X born?

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May 19th 1925

34
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What was the Nation of Islam?

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An American Islamic religious movement which wanted black and white Americans to be separated and improve black social and economic conditions

35
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What is black separatism?

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A political concept aimed at separating white and black culture and economy

36
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What was black power?

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A political idea that black Americans should reject help from whites

37
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Who were the black panthers?

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A militant group formed in 1966 with 5000 members prepared to use violence

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What was Malcom X a part of?

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A major voice of the Black Power movement

39
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Who was Cassius Clay?

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Better known as Mohammed Ali, he was an outspoken critic of racial discrimination

40
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What did Stolely Carmichael and the SNCC committee do

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Sent out the radical view of black power that Americans must reject help of white people when elected chairman in 1966

41
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When did African Americans get the right to vote?

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1957

42
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What did the Fair Housing Act if 1968 do?

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Made racial discrimination illegal when buying and renting homes

43
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What happened at one of MLKs marches?

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His ‘voting rights’ march in Selma Alabama on 7th March 1965 was banned but still went ahead triggering brutal attacks and was dubbed by the media ‘Bloody Sunday’

44
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How were people beginning to gain equal rights in cities after 1965?

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5 cities including Detroit, Atlanta and Cleveland had black mayors

45
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When was MLK assassinated?

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The evening of April 1968 after performing a strong speech

46
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What happened after MLKs death?

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The black community erupted in violent rage and despair causing 46 people to be killed by authorities

47
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Why might have MLK been killed?

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Many thought his time had passed and violent protests were the new way forward

48
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When were interracial marriages legalised?

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1967

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