People
Sued the board of education in Topeka, Kansas.
Who is Oliver Brown?
Supreme Court case that determined segregated facilities could no be equal
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The social movement for racial equality that occurred mainly in the 1950s-1960s.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
The first space satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.
What is Sputnik?
A term used by Mexican Americans to classify themselves as neither black nor white.
What is 'Brown'?
President at the end of WWII and during the rising fear of communism
Who was Harry S. Truman?
Assessment of the general knowledge of America's teachers. Many southern states linked scores to pay rates.
What is the National Teacher Examination?
The social phenomenon of the fear of communism that swept through the nation was called the ___?
What is The Red Scare?
Subjects given a lot of attention and importance in schools during the age of international competition/space race.
What are Math, Science, and Foreign Languages?
When black and Latinx families moved into a neighborhood, white families moved out.
What is 'white flight'?
The president who sent 1,200 National Guard troops to a school to ensure the safety of Black students integrating.
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?
A bill passed in 1958 that provided financial aid to students in the form of loans and fellowships, and to states to improve instruction in science, mathematics, foreign language, and guidance and counseling services.
What was the National Defense Education Act?
Name at least 3 non-black minority groups that pushed for equal civil rights.
What are Native Americans, Asian Americans, Mexican Americans, and Americans with Disabilities?
The relocation of Americans, especially white families, out of the city and into nearby communities.
What is suburbanization?
Umbrella term for curriculum reform approaches such as core curriculum and life skills.
What is functional curriculum?
A vocal opponent of the Life Adjustment curriculum who urged schools to concentrate on providing instruction in academic subjects.
Who is Arthur Bestor?
A 1965 act which lifted quota limitations on immigration from the Asiatic region and allowed for an explosion of Anian immigration through its family reunification provision. from the Asiatic region
What is the Immigration Act?
This led to many Black educators losing their jobs.
What is racial integration in schools?
DAILY DOUBLE:
Nine black students who were selected based on their grades to integrate at Central High School in ______ ____, ________?
What was the 'Little Rock Nine'?
Fill in the blank: Little Rock, Arkansas
A view that emerged at the end of WWII, especially in northern college-educated white Americans, that helped in the downfall of Jim Crow Laws.
What is 'Color-Blind Liberalism'?
Super-patriot Republican senator from Wisconsin who spread the fear and threat of communism in the minds of many Americans
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
Resurrected the pre-Civil War doctrine that a state could stop the federal government from carrying out what it believed to be a violation of individuals' rights within the state.
What were "Interposition Resolutions"?
A curriculum reform to improve individuals and society through training geared to future experience as a home member, a worker, and a citizen.
What is Life Adjustment Curriculum?
Location of one of the first teacher strikes after WWII.
Norwalk, Connecticut.
(Minneapolis and St. Paul/twins cities also acceptable)
The integration of white schools with a very small number of high-achieving black students while the majority of both black and white students remained segregated.
What is 'Tokenism'?