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| Frage | Antworten |
| What three events marked the beginning of the Civil Rights campaign? | Supreme Court's judgement in the Brown Case Lynching of Emmett Till The Montgomery Bus Boycott |
| What did the NAACP win court cases on? | Cases that forced school districts to observe 'separate but equal' rule |
| What happened in 1952? | NAACP back a case that attacked 'separate but equal' rule itself |
| What happened in May 1954? | The Brown Judgement |
| Who was Linda Brown? What did she have to do? | An eight year-old girl from Kansas who lived beside a white school Walk to take bus to get to her school |
| What did NAACP claim about segregated schooling? | It made black children feel inferior and made it difficult for them to learn |
| What did Supreme Court do? | Accepted the argument Ruled that school segregation must end with 'all deliberate speed' |
| What did the Brown Judgement do? What did southern whites fear? | Cause Southern outrage Mixed schooling would cause mixed marriages |
| Where did racial tension rise after Brown Judgement? Who were revived? | Mississippi Ku Klux Klax |
| What happened in August 1955? | The lynching of Emmett Till |
| Who was Emmett Till? Where was he going in August 1955? | A 14 year old black boy from Chicago To visit relatives in Mississippi |
| What did he do? What then happened? | Whistled at a white woman Her husband and a friend brutally murdered him |
| What happened to the husband and friend? | They were arrested and put on trial and found not guilty by all-white jury |
| What did this case attract? | Media attention throughout America |
| What did other Americans realise? | The lives of black citizens in the Deep South |
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