Civil Rights
Some, like MLK Jr. (SCLC) and Stokley Carmichael (SNCC) believed in a ______________ approach to bring about racial equality....and the strategy helped in gathering increased support for the movement.
non-violent
What genre of music were Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson and BB King all famous for?
Blues
The presidential election of 1860 was won by this Republican Party (the party created to oppose slavery) candidate. Not long after, _____________ became the first state to secede from the Union, while ___________ followed as the second state to secede.
Abraham Lincoln
South Carolina
Mississippi
Integrated public schools in the south were made a reality thanks to this landmark SCOTUS case of 1954 which overturned the previous SCOTUS ruling of Plessey v Ferguson (separate but equal legal doctrine) when it came to public schools.
Brown v Board
A teen from Chicago who was lynched in MS for "allegedly" breaking defacto segregation customs by whistling at a white woman in a store in Money, MS.
Emmett Till
The idea of a "beloved ___________' was the idea of MLK, JR. in which he envisioned a society where all races could show mutual respect for one another.
community
The MS Colonization Society offered newly emancipated blacks passage (a ride) back to ___________.
Africa
After the Civil War, many former slaves were overly skilled at farming, so many decided to stay in the south and become _________________.
sharecroppers
The SCOTUS case that decided that MS schools must finally fully desegregate in 1969 (years after the 1954 Brown v Board decision) was Alexander v ______________.
Holmes
Almost 18,000 black Mississippians fought for the ________ army during the Civil War.
Union
De _________ segregation is based on laws, while de ___________ segregation is the observance on customs and traditions. In MS, segregation was a divisive issue as their were supporters on ______- sides of the issue.
jure; facto; both
Laws that were aimed at curbing (limiting) the rights of blacks in the south after the Civil War were known as ___________ Crow Laws. These laws included things like literacy tests and poll taxes that were aimed at ________________ blacks (taking away their suffrage). Terror groups like the _____________ also sprang up and attempted to use violence and intimidation/fear to control the blacks and any whites who supported them.
Jim
disenfranchising
Ku Klux Klan
- serving in combat; farming; sewing uniforms and nursing....
The above list describes some of the many jobs that _____________ women performed during the Civil War.
southern
During the Civil War, one advantage enjoyed by the Confederate (southern) states was that they had better military _______________ and better trained soldiers.
commanders
Rutherford B Hayes agreed with southern Democrats to remove federal ______________ from the south if they helped him get elected as president....this ushered in a ferocious wave of segregation throughout the south as no one was there to ensure the southern states were following federal laws aimed at equality.
troops
The advent of this technology allowed the CRM to be shared around the world....and helped harvest more support for the movement as people could see, some for the first time, the violence being carried out against blacks across the southern United States.
television
This man tried to lead a slave revolt in Virginia by stealing weapons from an armory and giving them to slaves to fight with....
John Brown
Aprrox. 400,000 ___________ were freed in MS after the Civil War.
slaves
In order to win the Civil War, the north had to _________- and conquer the south....while the south need only to fight a defensive war.
invade
___________ was the first balck man to serve in the United States senate.....and Blanche K _________- was the second.
Hiram Revels; Bruce
A group of black students in Arkansas who wanted to attend an all white school....they were blocked by the state's governor before being escorted into the school by federal troops sent by president Eisenhower.
The Little Rock 9
President Lincoln's proposed plan for reconstruction (though never implemented because he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth) was lenient (easy) on the south because he wanted to restore the _____________ and not necessarily focus on punishing the ________. MS would later be readmitted to the Union in ________ under Andrew Johnson's reconstruction plan.
Union; south
1870
The Congressional Reconstruction Act divided the south into _______ military districts to make the area easier for the federal government to oversee.
5
In 1863, Lincoln issued an executive order that became known as the __________________ that declared all slaves in states still in rebellion against the Union to be free. This EO was followed by Congress, shortly after, passing the _______ Amendment which abolished slavery for good- as law.
Emancipation Proclamation
13th
The federal government set up the _____________- after the Civil War to assist former slaves in securing food, shelter, clothing, etc.... this organization was no doubt supported by both ___________ (individuals native to the south that supported racial equality in southern society) and ____________ (individuals native to the north who moved to the south and supported racial equality in southern society)
Freedman's Bureau
Scalawags
Carpetbaggers