Famous Court Cases
Sitting Down to Stand Up
Bring on the Boycott
Tough Stuff
Give Me My Education!
100
This court case said separate, but equal was not actually fair.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education, 1954?
100
This person refused to give up her seat on the bus on December 1, 1955.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
This was the city the boycott started in.
What is Montgomery, Alabama?
100
Jim Crow laws dominated in this area of the US.
What is the South?
100
Little Rock Central High School is located in...
What is Arkansas?
200
This court case said separate, but equal was fair.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
200
This group took on Rosa Parks as their "spokeswoman" for the Civil Rights Movement.
What is the NAACP?
200
This was why people boycotted the bus system.
What is to protest the unequal treatment of African Americans on the bus.
200
This young man visited his uncle in this state in this year.
What is Emmett Till in Mississippi in 1955?
200
The students were trying to do this to the education system.
What is integrate?
300
This man represented Linda Brown in her court case.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
300
This woman refused to give up her seat on the bus nine months prior to Rosa Parks.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
300
The boycott didn't end until this date.
What is December 20, 1956?
300
Describe Jim Crow.
What is (description)?
300
This is the name of the Governor and what he opposed.
Who is Orval Faubus and he opposed integration?
400
This is what NAACP stands for.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
400
This was one reason why the NAACP did not choose Claudette Colvin.
What is she was too young (15)?
400
These were two other forms of transportation that boycotters used.
What is walking, riding bikes, taking cabs, using carpool, and riding horses?
400
Emmett Till's mother put his picture on the cover of this magazine and did it for this reason.
What is Jet magazine and to let people see what the men had done to her son?
400
This President had to intervene to allow the students to enter the high school.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
500
Thurgood Marshall became this after winning his big case.
What is the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court?
500
True or False: Claudette Colvin, Mary Louise Smith, and Rosa Parks planned to refuse giving up their seats.
What is false?
500
This is the way the bus was set up prior to the boycott.
What is (student must describe the layout of the bus)?
500
These are the two accused people in Emmett Till's case and why people were upset after they confessed.
What is Roy Bryant and JW Milam; (description)?
500
A reason why Orval Faubus was disobeying the law (Brown vs. Board of Education).
What is because it was an election year and he needed support from Southerners?
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