JIM CROW
The collectively known 'Jim Crow' laws segregated society into 'white' and 'black' in these states.
What are the southern states?
This event lasted 381 days, from December 1955-December 1956.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This leader followed the teachings of Gandhi and promoted non-violent protest. He made his famous 'I have a dream' speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC on 28th August 1963.
Who is Martin Luther King Jnr?
This Montgomery Bus Boycott financially crippled the bus companies, leading to this significant achievement.
What is desegregation of the buses?
This movement began after the death of George Floyd in 2020, demonstrating the continuing fight for rights for people of colour in the USA.
What is Black Lives Matter?
Facilities in segregated states had to be this for the laws to be constitutional.
What is 'separate but equal'?
The first of these peaceful student protests began on 1st February 1960, at the Woolworths store in Greensboro, North Carolina.
What are sit ins?
Who is Malcolm X?
Martin Luther King Jnr and Malcolm X met for the first and only time at the signing of this important document.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
“We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering” was said by this important Civil Rights leader.
Who is Martin Luther King Jnr?
The KKK often used this callous action against freedom fighters as a warning to others not to protest.
What is lynching?
White students participating in this event in 1961 were brutally beaten as they were seen as traitors.
What are the Freedom Rides?
This woman refused to give up her seat to a white person on a bus, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
One of the first acts of JFK's presidency was to desegregate this, as a result of the Freedom Rides.
What is interstate travel?
This city was 'the most segregated city in America'.
What is Birmingham?
This song, written by a Jewish schoolteacher and performed by Billie Holiday, contrasted pastoral scenes of the South with the ugliness of racist violence.
What is 'Strange Fruit'?
In September 1963, the KKK bombed a church in Birmingham, resulting in the deaths of this many children.
What is 4?
This high profile lawyer won 29 of the 32 civil rights cases he fought, and became the first black justice of the Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This event saw an unexpected 250,000 protesters turn out to show their support for the Civil Rights Bill.
What is the March on Washington?
This 14 year old boy was viciously murdered in Money, Mississippi, bringing national attention to the problem of segregation and sparking the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Emmett Till?
This organisation was formed in 1909 to fight for the equality of rights of people of colour.
What is the NAACP? (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
At the 1968 Mexico Olympics, Tommie Smith and John Carlos made this symbolic action while standing on the dais.
What is the black power salute?
This Police Chief turned dogs and fire hoses on peaceful protesters in Birmingham in 1963.
Who is Bull Connor?
This President refused to back down when challenged by Arkansas Governor Faubus over the Little Rock Nine, leading to the desegregation of education.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This policy of the NAACP was designed to chip away at injustice on a case by case basis.
What is gradualism?