Segregation
This institution of forced labour is named in the documents as the root cause of racial segregation in the United States.
Slavery.
The year when Nelson Mandela became South Africa’s first democratically elected president.
1994.
Where was Martin Luther King Jr. born?
In Atlanta, Georgia.
Why was Rosa Parks arrested in 1955?
Because she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger.
How long did apartheid last?
50 years.
After the American Civil War, segregation was promoted under a phrase that justified separate facilities for races; name that phrase.
"Separate but equal."
What is the literal meaning of the Afrikaans word "apartheid"?
"Separateness."
Which protest helped launch King to national fame in 1955?
The Montgomery Bus Boycott.
How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last and how did it ended?
It lasted more than one year till the Supreme Court declared segregation on public transport illegal.
What important prize di Martin Luther King receive in 1964?
The Nobel Peace Prize.
List three types of public places that were commonly segregated for Black and white people.
Schools, train cars, public bathrooms, restaurants, hospitals, drinking fountains, churches, theatres, cemeteries, waiting rooms, prisons.
When was Apartheid officially made law?
In 1948.
When and where did he make his famous speech?
in 1963 in Washington.
When did she die?
She died in 2005.
How were people classified according to the apartheid system?
People were classified into 4 categories: white, black, indian and coloured.
Explain why Jim Crow laws were implemented.
To keep the Black population in an inferior position.
Name at least three specific laws and policies the apartheid system used to control or limit Black South Africans’ daily lives.
Requirement to carry ID permits, enforced curfews, forced residence in homelands, segregation of public facilities, banning interracial marriages.
When is Martin Luther King's Day celebrated nowadays and why?
Every year, on the third Monday of January because he was born on January, 15th.
How is she often called and why?
The Mother of the Freedom movement for her significant contribution in the struggle for equality.
Who was Jim Crow?
He was a fictional character created by a white actor in order to be a caricature of a black man. It eventually became a symbol of racial segregation and discrimination.
Say at least three types of actions taken by the civil right movement to fight against segregation.
Marches, protests, boycotts and acts of civil disobedience.
Explain why apartheid was economically useful to mining magnates.
Because mining magnates needed a cheap, controllable workforce (especially in gold mines).
Where and when was he assassinated?
In Memphis in 1968.
What civil rights organisation did Rosa Parks work for?
The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).
How was the education system structured to benefit the white minority?
Blacks received a fraction of the funding of white schools, compulsory education ending at age 13 for black children making them only workers/labourers.