AAF 7/14 Quiz Terms

Key people, orgs, legal cases

Domingo Morrel

author of “Developing Scholars”

Emmett Till

a 14 year old black teenager from Chicago, his death helped to spark the Civil Rights Movement by invigorating the masses through the press

Mamie Till-Mobley

Emmett Till’s mother. Chose to have her son’s body displayed in an open casket and photographed by the press. “I want the world to see what they did to my baby.”

SCLC

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Coordinated efforts of affiliate organizations, organized by Bayard Rustin and MLK to expand the Montgomery Bus Boycott across the South and established in 1957

Montgomery Improvement Association

formed under the leadership of MLK in 1955 by black ministers and community leaders in Montgomery, guided the Montgomery Bus Boycotts

Brown v Board of Education

Supreme court ruling that declared public school segregation unconstitutional and in violation of the 14th amendment. Overturned Plessy v Ferguson, and its “separate but equal” argument, but argued with vague language and sparked controversy.

Emmett Till Trial

The jury concluded that they could not identify the body as Till’s and Roy Bryan and J.W. Milam were acquitted. This sparked outrage across the nation, and helped to kickstart the Civil Rights Movement.

Montgomery Bus Boycott Supreme Court ruling

Browder v Gayle

declared bus segregation unconstitutional

Southern Manifesto

political document introduced in 1956 by Howard Smith (Virginia chairmen of the house), direct push back to Brown v Board of Education and advocated for segregation on the basis of “maintaining order” and “states’ Rights”

How long was the Emmett Till Trial? What year?

5 days. 1955

What year was Brown v Board of Education?

1954

What major things happened in 1955?

The Emmett Till Trial, Rosa Parks’ arrest, the establishment of the Montgomery Improvement Association (which launched the boycott)

When was Brouder v Gayle?

1956

When was the SCLC founded?

1957, to enforce the implementation of Brouder v. Gayle