Great Migration
Civil Rights Movement
Biography
Working life
Bonus
100
Where were people migrating from?
South
100
What year was the Civil Rights Movement?
1950s-1960s
100
How did George Starling get away from his parents?
Got married
100
What type of farm did he work on?
Orange farm
100
What kind of music would they listen listen to?
Jazz.
200
What was the most popular way to migrate?
trains and buses
200
College students used ______ to protest against segregation in diners and at lunch counters.
sit ins
200
What was the name of his wife?
Inez
200
What did George Starling do to upset the citrus growers in Florida?
He started union and labor disputes.
200
Why did George leave Detroit?
Detroit riots
300
Why did southerners move to big cities?
To get better jobs
300
A civil rights leader arrested for protesting bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. Their actions helped to end the segregation of public buses.
Rosa Parks
300
Where did he go to college?
FAMU
300
Why did he make a snap decision to leave for New York City?
Scared for his life
300
What did George go to school for?
Agriculture
400
Who were the people migrating?
African Americans
400
What laws were used to segregate whites from blacks?
Jim Crow Laws
400
Who is the man on the left?
George Starling
400
What incident took place at the farm?
They tied two ladders together and fell off.
400
What did his father and grandfather farm?
Tobacco and cotton
500
How many total people migrated in the Great Migration?
6 million
500
What case was the cause of Jim Crow Laws being created?
Plessy v. Ferguson
500
How many years did he go to college?
2 years
500
What did he do when he first got to Detroit?
Competed for jobs.
500
Who is the best America in the World professor?
Dr. Bligh