Civil Rights

Question 1

Brown Vs. Board

Answer 1

Brown was fighting about segregated schools, and the case went to the Supreme Court, they overruled plessy Vs Ferguson and said separate but equal was not equal. Both Races should be put in same school

Question 2

SCLC

Answer 2

southern Christian Leadership Conference

Question 3

Emmet Till

Answer 3

14 year old boy who got beaten to death for catcalling a cashier

Question 4

Rosa Parks

Answer 4

Girl who sat on a bus and didn’t give up her seat

Question 5

CORE

Answer 5

congress of racial Equality

Question 6

Freedom Rides

Answer 6

People who rode on busses to the south to make sure they were keeping the busses de-segregated. One bus got bombed

Question 7

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Answer 7

Letter from MLK in jail saying it was segregated

Question 8

confrontation at Little Rock

Answer 8

Little Rock 9 were prevented for mentee ring high school by a guard, led to a legal battle that ended in with integration of the school

Question 9

MLK’s background

Answer 9

Got his inspo from the priest Martin Luther, ghandi, and god
Huge activist
Made a change

Question 10

Chief Justice of Supreme Court in 1954

Answer 10

Earl Warren

Question 11

First head of FBI

Answer 11

Edgar Hoover

Question 12

First AA Justice

Answer 12

thurgood Marshall

Question 13

Field Sec of NAACP

Answer 13

Medger Evers

Question 14

Who created black power

Answer 14

Stokely Carmichael