Landmark Court Cases
This 1896 Supreme Court case established the "separate but equal" doctrine.
What is Plessy V. Ferguson?
Advertisers in the 1950s used this new medium to shape consumer spending habits.
What is a television?
This law provided benefits like low-interest home loans and tuition assistance for returning WWII veterans
What is the G.I. Bill of Rights?
This woman refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, sparking a year-long boycott
Who is Rosa Parks?
This protest was in reaction to the arrest of prominent Civil Rights activist, Rosa Parks?
What is The Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This Supreme Court case overturned a prior ruling of theirs and ruled that school segregation was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This group of Americans grew exponentially during the post-WWII economic boom.
What is the middle class?
Many women who worked during WWII were expected to return to this role after the war.
What is homemaking?
He emerged as the leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and later became a national civil rights leader.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
What is non-violent protest?
The Supreme Court ruled that the racial segregation of schools was in violation of this amendment. Bonus point of you can name the specific Clause!
What is the 14th ammendment?
The postwar suburban boom led to an increase in car ownership, which in turn contributed to the growth of this. (Two Answers)
What are highways and shopping malls?
The postwar economy saw a rapid increase in spending and production on goods, known as this.
Consumerism
This U.S. president sent federal troops to protect the Little Rock Nine as they integrated Central High School.
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
Martin Luther King Jr. claimed this was the issue with violent protest.
What is creates more problems than it solves?
The Montgomery Bus Boycott led to this court case, which ruled that segregation on public buses was unconstitutional.
What is Browder v. Gayle?
A discriminatory housing practice that denied home loans to African Americans and other minorities.
What is Redlining?
The four sectors that the G.I Bill of Rights addressed.
What are Education, Home Ownership, Business Loans, Unemployment Benefits.
This young boy’s murder in 1955 and his mother’s decision to hold an open-casket funeral helped spark the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Emmett Till?
This form of protest involved activists refusing to obey unjust laws as a way to bring about change during the Civil Rights Movement.
What is civil disobedience?
The term used to describe the time frame for de-segregation of schools.
What is "with all deliberate speed"?
This term is often used to describe the racial composition of the Suburbs.
What is Homogeneous?
What was the type of segregation that was reflected in the shift to the suburbs?
What is De-Facto Segregation.
This president desegregated the U.S. military in 1948
Who is Harry Truman?
The 1957 Civil Rights Act was the first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction and aimed to protect this fundamental right.
What is voting rights?