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From The Past
Civil Rights Movement Comes to North Carolina
Ava Gardner
For Some, Few Choices
Potpourri
100
George Washington
Our First President
100
Phairlever Pearson 1945
He served as principal of Central High School for twenty-one years.
100
1941
In what year did Ava Gardner become the state’s first female movie star?
100
Atlantic beach near Morehead City.
Segregation was still the law. Black families went to their own beaches, like?
100
interstate highway system
It was set up by the federal government in 1956 to connect all parts of the nation.
200
Ulysses S. Grant
Our 18th President
200
53 of 225
In 1959, five years after the Brown decision, only __________ requests for black student “freedom of choice” transfers were approved.
200
Ava Lavinia
Ava Gardner's real name was?
200
Shotgun houses
Most common homes for African Americans were? shotgun houses
200
Bypasses
Types of roads went around cities to avoid downtown congestion became common
300
Council Wooten
Famous Senator from La Grange
300
Josephine Boyd of Greensboro
In 1957, she had become one of the first “freedom of choice”
300
Mogambo in 1953
After the war, she made fewer films, but her performances made more lasting impressions, most particularly? Mogambo in 1953
300
Literacy laws
As blacks became more educated, the use of what to keep them from voting began to fall away.
300
I-40
It took more than twenty years to complete
400
Kerr Scott
Cigar-chomping Governor
400
Josephine Boyd
She endured taunts and abuse. One boy spit on her in class.
400
Spain
She became one of the most popular women in?
400
Durham and Greensboro
Blacks voted regularly in the cities, particularly in these two cities. There they were elected to city council.
400
Terry Sanford
Elected governor in 1960
500
Ronald Reagan
The President that ended the Cold War
500
A&T University
Pearson personally took students to places like _________ in Greensboro to see the choices they could make and the places they could go.
500
Smithfield
This town maintains an Ava Gardner Museum dedicated to her memory.
500
Edgecombe
As late as 1962, a black person who went to register in what County was turned away by a public official.
500
Kerr Scott
This governor challenged the state’s industrial leadership to spend more money for education and to pave rural roads