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Montgomery bus boycott, Brown v. Board of Education, the Little Rock Nine, Autherine Lucy and Emmett Till's murder
Jim Crow Laws
What was the name for the group of discriminatory racist laws in the South?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
what does NAACP stand for?
The Crisis
what was the name of the NAACP magazine?
Supreme Court
Which court ruled on Brown v. Board of Education?
Oliver and Linda Brown
What was the name of the father and daughter who sued the Topeka Board of Education leading to Brown v. Board of Education?
Earl Warren
What was the name of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1954?
Topeka, Kansas
Where did Linda Brown and her father, Oliver Brown, live?
14th
Which Amendment to the Constitution stated that all US citizens should have equal protection under the law?
Brown versus Board II
Which ruling held that school systems must abolish their racially dual systems “with all deliberate speed”?
Cooper versus Aaron (1958)
Which ruling held that official resistance and community violence shouldn’t be allowed to delay the implementation of desegregation efforts?
Griffin versus Prince Edward County (1964)
Which ruling held declared illegal the practice of closing all public schools in the Southern states and instead providing citizens with vouchers to attend private schools?
Autherine Lucy
What was the name of the black student admitted to the University of Alabama?
Central High School
What was the name of the high school that black students decided to go to in 1957 in Little Rock, Arkansas?
Little Rock, Arkansas
Which city (+ state) did nine black students enroll in a previously white high school?
Elizabeth Eckford
What was the name of the teenage girl who had to walk to school in Little Rock alone?
Hazel Bryan
What was the name of the woman shouting at Elizabeth Eckford in the famous photograph?
Orval Faubus
Who was the Governor of Arkansas in 1957?
The National Guard
Who did Governor Orval Faubus decided to place around Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas?
the city police
Who did Governor Faubus replace the National Guard with?
paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division
Who did Eisenhower send to Little Rock, Arkansas to restore peace?
mob rule
“___________ will not be allowed to overrule the decisions of our court” - President Eisenhower explaining why he was sending troops to Arkansas
Emmett Till
What was the name of the boy who was murdered in Money, Mississippi?
14
How old was Emmett Till?
“bye baby”
What did Emmett Till supposedly say to the cashier in the store?
Jet magazine
In which magazine was a picture of Emmett Till’s body displayed?
Mamie Till
What was the name of Emmett Till’s mother?
4000 dollars
For how much did J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant sell their story of the night of the murder of Emmett Till?
Rosa Parks
What was the name of the woman who refused to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in Montgomery, sparking the Montgomery bus boycott?
Browder v. Gayle
What was the name of the federal lawsuit that was filed due to the Montgomery bus boycott?
2/3
Before the Montgomery bus boycott, what fraction of the bus riders were black?
Abernathy
Who was the other preacher at the church during the Montgomery bus boycott whose preaching style complemented MLK’s incredibly well?
White Citizen’s Council
What was the name of the white segregationist group that held rallies against blacks due to the Montgomery bus boycott?
90
How many black leaders were indicted under an old anti-boycott law by the white officials of Montgomery?
9
How many teenagers enrolled in Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas?
15
How old was Elizabeth Eckford?
1200
How many paratroopers did President Eisenhower send to Little Rock, Arkansas?
Plessy v. Ferguson
What was the name (and the year) of the Supreme Court Case that introduced the idea of “separate but equal”?
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