APUSH: Little Rock Study Guide

Author?

Daisy Bates

Plessy v. Ferguson

led to segregation

Who enforces integration and why?

federal gov had to bc states wouldn’t comply (supreme court has no way of enforcing unless state enforces it)

Who was at the forefront of the Little Rock thing?

Governor Faubus

Why is the school being integrated?

Brown v. Board of Education

What did congress do to encourage integration?

said if schools don’t integrate —> no public funding

who was the president

eisenhower

what did the local police do for the little rock nine?

basically nothing

what did it take to get the little rock nine into school?

eisenhower sending troops

What was bates the pres of?

NAACP and her newspaper (the state press)

where was Little rock?

arkansas

Why did the newspaper get shut down?

bc advertises stopped supporting her and people boycotted her bc of her integration efforts

what did the KKK put on her property as a threat?

burning cross (symbol of the KKK)

What happens to the girl who doesn’t get the info of where to meet and why doesnt she get the info?

she gets surrounded by a mob + didnt know bc no landline inhouse

what are some things that happened to the kids at school?

• battery acid thrown on faces

• others walked on their heels

• almost got pushed down the stairs

• many teachers wouldnt take action

what happened to white ppl who openly supported integration?

ostracized

What happened to Bates’s mother

she was killed bc she was black in an interracial couple

who is LC Bates

daisy’s hubby + Arkansas started state press with her

what was the highschool?

central highschool

Orval Faubus

governor of arkansas that was super against integration

what did Faubus do that escalated the crisis?

defied federal law

what did faubus do to the prevent students from entering HS

ordered national guard to stop them

Virgil Blossom

superintendent of Little Rock schools that developed integration plan

Thurgood marshall

lawyer that represented the nine

how did daisy bates grow up?

in poverty, surrounded by segregation

what is the NAACP?

oldest civil rights org in US

niagara movement

dedicated to civil rights for african americans