2. The Montgomery Bus Boycott (Why it took place- Civil Rights)

How many years after what event in US history did the boycott take place?

90 years after the ending of slavery by Abraham Lincoln

What is said in the Declaration of Independence, from what year?

“All men are created equal, they are endowed by their creator with inalienable rights”, 1776

What laws enforced segregation in the US, up until what year? How many were in the State of Alabama?

The Jim Crow Laws, based on a racist caricature of an African-American named Jim Crow, up to 1965

27 of these laws existed in Alabama

What kind of treatment did the Jim Crow Laws claim to establish?

“Separate but equal”

Which federal agreement established the Jim Crow laws, in what year, where did it take place?

Plessy Vs. Ferguson, 1896, New Orleans

What restrictions were applied to voters?

Intimidation and literary tests, only 14% of eligible voters in Alabama could vote in 1955

What were the effects of violence on black communities?

360 black people were Lynched in the years 1877-1950, 60 of which occurred around Montgomery itself

Ku Klux Klan- White supremacist group

What evidence is there that black people were more at risk of poverty than whites?

in 1955, the average black income was 50% of whites