Ugh Flashcards
Place where university of Mississippi is located
Oxford
City where civil rights movement had problems with Laurie Pritchett
Albany, Georgia
Police chief in Birmingham
Bull Conner
Governor of Arkansas who liked segregated schools
Orval E. Phobus
Head of NAACP (he was shot in the back)
Medger Evers
Teen who was killed for saying something “fresh” to a white woman
Emmet Till
Man who killed Martin Luther King Jr.
James Earl Ray
Man who killed Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner
Edgar Ray Killing
Reused to give up her seat on the bus
Rosa Parks
Talked with the mayor of Tennessee and asked to end segregated lunch counters
Dianne Nash
Raised their fists for black power at the olympics
Tommy Smith and John Carlos
White freedom rider who was beaten up
Jim Swerg
Students civil rights organization
SNICK
Pastors civil rights organization
SCLC
Attorneys civil rights organization
NAACP
What is core
Congress of racial equality (James Farmer was a part of it)
Date I have a dream was given
August 1963
Girl who didn’t show up the first day of school at Central High
Elizabeth Elford
Trained civil rights workers to be peaceful before they sat at lunch counters
Jim Lawson
Group that came up with the song “Sweet Home Alabama”
Lynrd Skynrd
President who sent the army to help Meridith enroll
Kennedy
Attorney general for Kennedy
Bobby Kennedy
Bobby Kennedy put pressure on what group to get rid of segregated busses
ICC
Law passed that ended segregation
Civil rights act of 1964
Document King wrote in confinement
Letter from a Birmingham jail
Pastor in SCLC who was whacked in the head
CT Vivian
Head of FBI who didn’t like the black panthers
Hoover
Who inspired Martin Luther King Jr.
Gandhi
Person who wrote southern man
Neil young
Anthem for civil rights movement
We shall overcome
Organization that wasn’t legally chosen for the democratic delegates
MFDP
Police chef who wouldn’t fill up the jails
Laurie Pritchett
Dude shot trying to protect his mom
Jimmy Lee Jackson
Segregationist governor of Mississippi
Ross Barn
City where bus boycott took place
Birmingham
First black to attend the university of Alabama
Autherine Lucy
Who lead the Black Panther Party?
Hewie Lewton and Bobby Seal
How many times did Kwane Ture go to jail?
27
What year was Malcolm X shot?
1965
Which president sent the army to protect the march from Selmont to Montgomery (54 miles)
Johnson
Who’s house and church were bombed
Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth
Who was a member of the KKK and found guilty?
Robert Chambliss
Who was convicted for killing the four kids in the church bombing?
Thomas Blanton and Bobby Cherry
Who thought the freedom riders were “troublemakers”
Gov. John Patterson
Where were the freedom riders mobbed?
Montgomery
Who refused to pay a fine for sitting at a lunch counter?
John Lewis and he sat in jail for 33 days
Who dumped chili on a kids head?
Minnie
Who is sent to help the kids at central high all year?
101 Airborne Division
Where is central high school?
Little rock Arkansas
How long was the bus abolition?
11 months
Who found Emmet Till
Mose Wright
Who killed Emmet Till?
Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam
What year did Truman desegregate the military?
1948
What year did segregation in schools end?
1954
Who wanted to go to the University of Mississippi?
James Meredith (Kennedy sent 400-500 troops to help him)
How many troops were sent to help the freedom riders?
600
What were the freedom riders arrested for?
Trespassing and over 300 got 60 days
Who was determined the March from Selmont to Montgomery wouldn’t happen?
Gov. Wallace
Who whacked CT Vivian upside the head?
Jim Clark
Who was lost and got hit in the head with a club and killed?
James Reeb
