Economy
This federal law, passed after WWII, gave returning soldiers money for college and home loans — but was functionally denied to most Black veterans.
What is the GI Bill?
This Detroit-based record label, founded by Berry Gordy with an $800 family loan, put more than 100 songs in the Top Ten between 1961 and 1971.
What is Motown?
In the 1952 civil defense film shown in the Cold War lesson, children were told to do this if a nuclear bomb fell.
What is duck and cover?
This 1954 Supreme Court case ruled that segregated public schools were unconstitutional — and in Mississippi, that day was called "Black Monday."
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
This federal program, launched in the summer of 1965, gave poor children early education, meals, and healthcare for the first time.
What is Head Start?
In 1950, about half of Mississippi families lived in poverty. By 1960, it dropped by a lot. What region of Mississippi got left out of that improvement?
What is the Delta?
his 1960s television show based in Philadelphia had white teenagers dancing to Black music every afternoon while Black teenagers were kept out of the studio audience.
What is American Bandstand?
This country was the United States' main Cold War opponent — the country the U.S. believed was surrounded and closing in.
What is the USSR/Soviet Union/Russia?
Founded in 1954 in response to Brown v. Board, this Mississippi organization was government-funded, wore suits, and kept tabs on both white and Black Mississippians who wanted integration.
HINT: It was nicknamed the “Uptown Klan”
What are Citizens Councils?
This president launched the Great Society — the sweeping set of federal programs that included Head Start, Medicare, and Medicaid.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson/LBJ?
This first woman to serve as Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi handed out emery boards as campaign swag and placed her ads in the women's section of the Clarion-Ledger.
Who is Evelyn Gandy?
In the American Dream lesson, ads from 1960 sold a picture of the perfect American family in this room of the house.
What is the kitchen?
In the Cold War lesson's opening game, students had seven seconds to grab five of these items for a fallout shelter.
What are supplies (flashlight, food, batteries, etc.)?
In Gallery 4, this NAACP field secretary's desk is on display — the desk he was using when he was assassinated in his driveway in June 1963.
Who is Medgar Evers?
This Mississippi astronaut was on Apollo 13.
Who is Fred Haise?
In the Same Year, Different World lesson, this Sunflower County character is still a sharecropper's wife in 1960 — the same place she started in 1950.
Who is Hazel?
This Temptations song — the cold-play anchor of the Motown lesson — uses extended metaphor compliments and was released in 1964.
What is “The Way We Do That Thing You Do.”
In the Red Scare lesson, students received folded papers with five of these drawn inside — making the students holding them "the communists.”
What is an X?
In the Citizens' Council lesson, this children's comic book character was named as an enemy of the organization because a comic quiz encouraged readers to test their "BQ."
Who is Superman?
In Mississippi alone, Head Start served this many children in its first summer. HINT: The number is between 5,000-10,000
What is 6,000?
Fill in the blank: Americans are afraid. And fear is a powerful _____.
What is a tool/weapon?
Named by Hazel in Same Year, Different World and returned to in From Head Start to the Moon, she is the character whose opportunities the Great Society was trying to open
Who is Hazel’s daughter?