USA - Civil Rights facts

Question 1

Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka

Answer 1

-1954
-Linda Brown won case with NAACP at Supreme Court to go to white school

Question 2

The murder of Emmett Till

Answer 2

-1955
-murdered for wolf whistling at a white woman

Question 3

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answer 3

-1955-56
-Rosa Parks refused to move on the bus for a white man
-policy changed by 1956

Question 4

Little Rock high school

Answer 4

-Arkansas, 1957
-Supreme Court ordered governor to let 9 AA students attend
-govenor sent national guard to prevent access
-president Eisenhower send federal troops to protect AA students and let them in

Question 5

First civil rights act

Answer 5

-1957
-eisenhower passed this in congress, forced states to remove some Jim Crow Laws
-increased voting by 3%

Question 6

Second civil rights act

Answer 6

-1960
-eisenhower forced stricter implementation of first act to improve security of AA elections

Question 7

sit ins

Answer 7

-1960
-SNCC students sat sat in white cafes in north Carolina

Question 8

freedom rides

Answer 8

-1961
-CORE activists in Alabama sat in white buses
-200 activists jailed for 40 days
-Kennedy freed them

Question 9

James Meredith and Ole Miss

Answer 9

-1962
-he wanted to study there
-NAACP assisted and federal marshals protected
-2 marshals killed and 160 injured

Question 10

Birmingham civil rights march

Answer 10

-1963
-MLK organised peaceful march
-local police used water canons and dogs
-1000 arrested

Question 11

march on Washington

Answer 11

-1963
-MLK speech
-200k AA and 50k white attended

Question 12

the civil rights act

Answer 12

-1964
-illegal to discriminate in housing and employment

Question 13

MLK

Answer 13

-christian
-non violent
-intergration

Question 14

MX

Answer 14

-islam
-violent
-segregation- start Nation of Islam
-approach significantly less popular

Question 15

black panthers

Answer 15

-violent militia
-protesting