Chronology
Gov’t People
Upstanders
Ordinary People
Miscellaneous
100
Which event happened EARLIER…
Little Rock 9 enter Central High School
Brown v. Board of Education
What is Brown v. the Board of Education?
100
He was the Governor of Arkansas in 1957.
Who is Orval Faubus?
100
This subject’s textbook Robin shared with Terrence when she pulled over her desk.
What is math?
100
Name at least 5 members of the Little Rock 9.
Ernest Green
Elizabeth Eckford
Melba Patillo
Minnijean Brown
Terrence Roberts
Carlotta Walls
Thelma Mothershed
Gloria Ray
Jefferson Thomas
100
Why was Ernest Green the only member of the Little Rock 9 to graduate in 1958?
What is he was the only senior that year?
200
This event happened LATER.
Arkansas National Guard ordered to “preserve the peace.”
Little Rock police ordered to keep the mob away from Central High.
What is the "Little Rock police ordered to keep the mob away from Central High"?
200
He was the President of the United States in 1957.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
200
She helped Elizabeth Eckford escape the mob on the first day of school and reach safety on a bus.
Who is Grace Lorch?
200
Minnijean was a part of this event in the school lunchroom.
What is “The chili incident”?
200
The governor did this at the end of the school year.
What is he closed all of Little Rock’s high schools (this is called “The Lost Year”)?
300
The Brown v Board of Education was decided this year.
What is 1954?
300
The name of the group that started the process of integrating schools in Little Rock, starting with Central High.
What is the Little Rock School Board?
300
Jenny Lee Ball support Carlotta during the 1957-58 school year when she chose Carlotta for her team in gym class. Jenny used which of her PEPSI powers?
What is social power?
300
This happened to Minnijean as a result of the lunchroom incident.
What is she was expelled from school?
300
How did “The Lost Year” affect the Governor of Arkansas?
What is he won reelection?
400
The Supreme Court's decision in Brown v the Board of Education overturned the Plessy v Ferguson decision from this year.
What is 1896?
400
He was the Superintendent of Little Rock Public Schools in 1957.
Who is Virgil Blossom?
400
Those teachers and students who at times were openly kind, who seemed to look beyond skin color and see nine students eager to learn, eager to be part of a great academic institution.
What are upstanders?
400
Hazel Bryan and David Sontag have this in common.
What is they were both were perpetrators?
400
Name all three levels of government and at least one group or person involved in the integration of CHS from each.
Local, state, national:
L = LR School Board, LR police, Superintendent Virgil Blossom
S = Gov. Orval Faubus, Arkansas National Guard
N = Pres. Dwight Eisenhower, the Supreme Court/Fed. Courts, 101st Airborne
500
What was the school year of 1958-1959 in Little Rock called?
What is the Lost Year?
500
President Eisenhower sent 1000 soldiers from this division of the US Army to protect the Little Rock 9.
What is the 101st Airborne Division?
500
This woman was an activist and Head of the local NAACP who offered crucial support to the Little Rock Nine.
Who is Daisy Bates?
500
On the first day of school, she walked alone and was harassed and threatened by a mob outside of school.
Who is Elizabeth Eckford?
500
This is the opposite of segregation.
What is integration?
What is desegregation?