Rights And Freedoms- America

Question 1

When was MLKJ born? Where?

Answer 1

1929 in Atlanta Georgia

Question 2

When did MLKJ become a pastor and where?

Answer 2

1954 at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery Alabama

Question 3

When did he become leader of the Montgomery bus boycott? What happened? What did this lead to?

Answer 3

After Rosa Parks was arrested. He protested segregation and was arrested and had his house attacked. This success lead to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference which was important in this movement and lead to freedom rides.

Question 4

How did Kind achieve political support? What was he referred to because of this?

Answer 4

By supporting candidates in 1960 election. Communist

Question 5

Who tried to undermine him?

Answer 5

The Director of the FBI, J Edgar Hoover

Question 6

When was the March on Washington? What happened?

Answer 6

I have a dream speech. 28 August 1963

Question 7

When did MLKJ achieve a noble prize? Why?

Answer 7

1964 for helping to end segregation

Question 8

When was MLKJ assassinated? By who?

Answer 8

He was campaigning for garbage workers in Memphis Tennessee. 4 April 1968 aged 39. By James Earl Ray. He was arrested two months later in a London.

Question 9

How is MLKJ remembered?

Answer 9

In the 3rd Mon of Jan. It is MLKD day and public holiday.

Question 10

What is a key quote from King’s dream speech?

Answer 10

‘One day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of this creed: “we hold these truths to be self-evident: that men are created equal.”’

Question 11

How did Kind influence Australia?

Answer 11

He was an inspiration especially to Charles Perkins who looked up to him and other freedom riders.

Question 12

When did the struggle for civil rights in US gain word wide attention?

Answer 12

1960s

Question 13

When did African Americans start to leave southern slave owning States?

Answer 13

During WW11 to work in war industries in places of better employment such as California

Question 14

When was segregation in the army removed?

Answer 14

1948

Question 15

When did Southern States end segregation?

Answer 15

1865

Question 16

When was segregation in schools seen as illegal? What was it known as?

Answer 16

1954. Brown vs. board of education ruling. Despite this some schools still broke the law

Question 17

When was Emmett Till murdered? Why? By who?

Answer 17

August 1955 at 14. He was lynched after being accused of flirting and catcalling a white woman. He was thrown in a river. They were the husband and the brother in law.

Question 18

What did the mother do? How else was it publicised?

Answer 18

She left the casket open to show brutality to the world and photos of photo were published. In 1962 Bob Dylan wrote a song called the “death of Emmett Till”

Question 19

Where they guilty?

Answer 19

They were found not guilty by an all white jury in Mississippi however they confessed to the crime later in a magazine knowing they couldn’t be re tried.

Question 20

What did the case of Till lead to? What did it mean?

Answer 20

The 1975 Civil Rights Act That started African Americans could vote and called for a government report on race relations

Question 21

When was Rosa Parks arrested? Why?

Answer 21

In 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama after refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger.

Question 22

When was Montgomery ordered by the US Supreme Court to stop segregation on buses?

Answer 22

1956

Question 23

What happened when 9 black boys tried to enrol at an all white school? When?

Answer 23

1957. They were refused. the Arkansas governor used armed forces to stop students even though it was illegal but the president intervened and sent an army to allow them to go.

Question 24

Who was James Meredith? What did he do?

Answer 24

He attempted to enrol in the Oxford campus of uni of Mississippi. This prompted riots and threats from the KKK. He eventually enrolled.

Question 25

Who were the freedom riders?

Answer 25

A group of activists who wanted to test the effect of the Us Supreme Court’s 1960 decision to end racial discrimination on public transport. They would sit side by side on buses or in restaurants together black and white, ignoring segregation in toilets and drinking fountains etc.

Question 26

What often happened to freedom riders? What happened in jail?

Answer 26

They were attacked by KKK and corrupt police. They were then refused medical assistance. They would also be arrested. In jail they would sing and in some cases they would be set free due to annoyance.

Question 27

What did King pressure President Kennedy to do? When?

Answer 27

To insist that the states comply with desegregation laws. Sep 1961

Question 28

When did King lead a march on Washington? How many came? What was it for?

Answer 28

1963. 250,000. To protest an end to segregation.