Civil Rights Test Quizlet
Who does the President finally send to the high school to help with integration?
Paratroopers in the army
Which Supreme Court case had ruled earlier that segregated schools were in fact legal?
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Who do the white teenagers think is the real problem in this situation?
The parents *these are parents*
What other terms do you hear for blacks?
"boy"
What is a slang term for white people, used by blacks?
Cracker
Who was the leader and spokesperson for this group of students?
Daisy Baits
Who is the president of the USA at this time? (1953-1961)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation issued?
1863
How long did the bus boycott last?
381 days
How old was MLK when he was assassinated?
39
Who is Fred Shuttlesworth?
A U.S. civil rights activist who led the fight against segregation and other forms of racism as a minister in Birmingham, Alabama.
What is an epithet as used in the video?
A term of abuse
Which Supreme Court decision determined that segregated schools were un-Constitutional? What year?
Brown vs. Board, 1954
Which woman was very involved in the battle for desegregation in this area?
Authrine Lucy
Who attempted to integrate the U. of AL in 1956?
Authrine Lucy
Many Americans used the ________ to support their arguments against segregation.
Bible
Where was Emmett Till from?
Chicago
What kind of "rides" had also begun at this time?
Freedom Rides
"The best thing you can make out of your enemy is a _____."
Friend !!
What does the governor of AR. Do the next year?
He closes the schools
What did Till do wrong?
He flirted with a married white woman.
In the late 1950's, where was the battle for civil rights fought?
In the classrooms of the south
Who chooses to desegregate the Univ. of MS in 1961?
James Merideth
Who becomes the President in 1961?
John F. Kennedy
This group formed to uphold white supremacy.
Ku Klux Klan
MLK was going to use "the weapon of ______."
LOVE
What is the name the school in Little Rock
Little Rock Central HS
Where (city & state) and when does the black community fight back?
Little Rock, AR
What is the term for an illegal hanging?
Lynching
What object is the guardsman swinging in front of the school?
Night Stick (Billy Club)
Who is Ralph Abernathy?
MLK's right-hand man
Who becomes the head of the Montgomery Improvement Association?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Who counseled James Meredith?
Medgar Evers (he was assassinated)
Where does the story of Emmett Till begin? What year?
Mississippi, in 1955
Where does the Rosa Parks story take place?
Montgomery, AL
Who was Emmett Till's uncle?
Mose Wright
Progress in the south began with the ______________ of ____________
Murder of Emmett Till
What does NAACP stand for?
National Association of the Advancement for Colored People
Which city experiencd a "city-wide riot" over desegregation of their schools?
New Orleans
** Know the Rosa Parks story**
One of the 4 paragraph possibilities
**Know the Little Rock 9 story**
One of the 4 paragraph possibilities
**Know the story of Emmett Till**
One of the 4 paragraph possibilities
**Know the story of the Ole Miss riot**
One of the 4 paragraph possibilities
Who is the governor of this state at this time?
Orval Faubus *lol @ his name*
Who is the governor of MS at this time? (1960-1964)
Ross Barnet
Who physically stands in the doorway of Ole Miss to stop Meredith from enrolling?
Ross Barnet *rude again*
Who was the executive director of the NAACP?
Roy Wilkins
What causes one black student to be expelled?
She dumped her chili on a white person (retaliation)
Who determines that the bus segregation was illegal?
Supreme Court
What is Montgomery AL known as?
The Cradle of the Confederacy
What term is used to refer to the kitchen staff in this soup incident?
The Help
What will this group of black students come to be called?
The Little Rock 9
Who keeps black students from entering this school?
The National Guard
What do the students at Ole Miss seem to be the most concerned about?
The School Closing Down (Football)
Who was the first African-American justice on the supreme court?
Thurgood Marshal
White people believed that if they used ________ to resist desegregation, they could keep blacks out of schools.
Violence
Which organization arose to oppose the boycott?
White Citizens Council
