The Civil Rights Movements in the 1950s

Question 1

When was the Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka?

Answer 1

1954

Question 2

Why did the Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka, 1954 occur?

Answer 2

• Oliver Brown was upset that his daughter had to travel miles to school and had to cross a train track, and that his daughter had poorer quality education compared to white students

Question 3

Who helped the Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka, 1954 case?

Answer 3

the NAACP

Question 4

What does the NAACP stand for?

Answer 4

National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People

Question 5

What was the result of the Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka, 1954 case? Was this really put in place?

Answer 5

• Chief Justice Earl Warren declared that every education board had to end segregation in schools
• in six Southern states, schools remained segregated

Question 6

When was the Little Rock case?

Answer 6

1957

Question 7

What was the Little Rock case, 1957?

Answer 7

• nine African-American students tried to attend Central High School in Arkansas
• included Elizabeth Eckford
• Governor Faubus sent National Guard soldiers to stop them

Question 8

What did President Eisenhower do in response to Governor Faubus (Little Rock case, 1957)?

Answer 8

• sent federal troops to protect the students

Question 9

What was the impact of the Little Rock case, 1957? But what was the reality?

Answer 9

• the students now had a right to attend the school
• schools supposedly desegregated
• but many African-Americans still attended segregated schools

Question 10

By 1960, how many black students attended the same school as white students? (Little Rock case, 1957)

Answer 10

only 2500 out of 2 million

Question 11

What did Rosa Parks do and when? What happened to her?

Answer 11

• refused to give up her seat for a white passenger on a segregated bus
• 1st December 1955
• was arrested

Question 12

What did Rosa Parks’ arrest lead to?

Answer 12

The Montgomery Bus Boycott

Question 13

Why was the Montgomery Bus Boycott so effective?

Answer 13

African-Americans contributed to 75% of the bus company’s revenue

Question 14

Who was chosen to lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Answer 14

Martin Luther King Jr

Question 15

When a bomb exploded at MLK’s, what did he tell the protestors to do? Why?

Answer 15

• remain peaceful
• because he believed that ‘non-violent’ protests were the best way to achieve something
• he called this ‘direct action’

Question 16

What was the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955?

Answer 16

all buses were to be desegregated