The separation begins
The separation of people of different races
segregation
A Chicago 14-year old that went inside a general store to buy candy and was accused of talking to a white woman. He was beaten by two whites and thrown in the Mississippi River.
Emmett Till
The Supreme Court case that made segregation in schools illegal
Brown v Board of Education
A group of African-Americans that went to an all white school in Little Rock, Arkansas
Little Rock Nine
The person who was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white person
Rosa Parks
Laws that separated blacks and whites
Jim Crow Laws
Why was there an open casket at Emmett Till's funeral?
So everyone could see the damage of Emmett's body
As a result of Brown v. Board of Education, segregation in schools was considered...
unconstitutional
Who sent in the National Guards to block the students from entering the high school?
Governor Faubus
The arrest of Rosa Parks led to the...
Montgomery Bus Boycott
What was the Supreme Court case that used the phrase "separate but equal"?
Plessy V Ferguson
What was the outcome of the Emmett Till case?
The prejudice of southern juries made it difficult to hold white people responsible for crimes against black people.
Where was Brown vs. Board of Education?
Topeka, Kansas
Who sent in federal troops to enforce the Supreme Court order to integrate public schools?
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
What is a boycott?
When you refuse to buy a certain product in order to show that you don't support a company's business practices
As a result of Plessy V Ferguson,
segregation was spreading and blacks and whites were separate but not equal.
What kind of trial was the Emmett Till case?
an all-white trial that wasn't fair
Who won the Brown v. Board of Education?
Thurgood Marshall
When African-American Elizabeth Eckford was walking to school, there was.....
a mob of whites harassing and protesting about the Little Rock Nine being in their school
What happened during the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
The blacks were protesting about segregation in buses and the bus company lost three fourths of their money.
What did literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses do to African-Americans in the late 19th and 20th century?
They prevented blacks from voting.
What did they find out about the two white men that beat up Emmett at the Emmett Till Trial? Was the trial considered guilty?
The two white men that beat up Emmett were put on trial for committing a crime. As a result of the Emmett Till Case, the two whites were considered not guilty.
Brown v. Board of Education violated the
14th Amendment
What does "lynch" mean?
to kill someone by hanging them up illegally in public
As a result of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, what happened?
The buses were desegregated.