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FlashCards por Izzy Noone, atualizado more than 1 year ago
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Criado por Izzy Noone
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| Questão | Responda |
| What does "Jim Crow Laws" mean? | Local or state laws which enforce segregation of Black and White Americans |
| Give two examples of segregation in the South | Transport/buses/cafes/cinemas/toilets/ blood/schools |
| What did the Supreme Court rule following the case of Plessy vs Ferguson in 1896? | Segregation is legal but facilities must be available to both Black and White Americans, separate but equal doctrine |
| In the 1920s, the KKK reached its height of popularity, how many members did they have? | 4 million |
| Give one example of a civil rights group operating before WW2 | NAACP- National Association for the Advancement of Coloured people |
| How many Black Americans fought in WW2? | 1 million |
| Give one way the War helped the progress of Black American Civil Rights | Showed they were willing to fight and die for their country/ led to the desegregation of the army after WW2 |
| Where was Rosa Parks arrested in 1955 and why? | Montgomery, Alabama. She refused to give up her seat to a white person |
| What punishment did she receive? | $10 fine |
| A boycott of the buses was declared by a Civil Rights group. What does a boycott mean? | Black people refused to travel on buses as most of the customers were black this caused the bus company to lose lots of money |
| Which civil rights leader became the influential leader of the protest? | Martin Luther King Jr |
| How long did the boycott last? | 13 months/ 381 days |
| Give two other examples of Peaceful protest | Sit-ins/ Freedom rides/ peaceful marches |
| Give one strength of peaceful protests | Media recorded violent reaction of whites /shamed people into supporting movement/ non violent reaction gained sympathy |
| Give one weakness of peaceful protest | Many injured/increased violent reaction of white supremacists/ Black Americans continued to be killed/ legal changes did not change racists attitudes/ changes too slow |
| Why did Oliver Brown begin a legal case against the Topeka board of education? | His daughter, Linda Brown had to walk to a segregated school far away/ included crossing a train yard/ there was a school that was closer but it was for whites only/ supported by the NAACP |
| What was the outcome of the Brown vs Topeka case? | Supreme court ruled that separate but equal was no longer right/ ruled all schools should be integrated/ did not initially give deadline |
| Which school in Arkansas did the Civil Rights movement try to integrated in 1957? | Little Rock school |
| Give two outcomes of the campaign to integrate Little Rock | Media showed violent reaction toward Black students which gained sympathy/ president overruled the state governor and used army to force the school to integrate/Governor of Arkansas closed the schools/ governor was still reelected. |
| In what year did James Meredith become the first black student to attend Mississippi University? | 1962 |
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