Medgar Evers
This man, who assassinated Medgar Evers, lived on Signal Mountain.
Who was Byron de la Beckwith?
These two men were famously lynched on the Walnut Street Bridge.
Who were Alfred Blount and Ed Johnson?
The Bureau ceased to operate in Chattanooga in this year.
When is 1869?
Howard students conducted sit-ins at Chattanooga businesses in this year.
When is 1960?
Black voters successfully sued the City of Chattanooga under the VRA in this year.
What is 1987?
This many years passed before Evers' assassin was convicted for the murder?
What is 31 years?
Alfred Blount was accused of this crime.
What is assault?
In April 1866, the Bureau conducted health inspections to prevent the spread of this disease that causes diarrhea and vomiting.
What is Cholera?
The sit-ins had this effect on the Chattanooga community in August 1960.
What is the integration of all lunch counters?
The original juries did not convict Evers' assassin, and mistrials were declared. This feature finally enabled a jury to convict the murderer.
What are racially mixed juries?
Ed Johnson was accused and convicted of this crime.
What is sexual assault?
Daily Double!
The Bureau helped found this school in Hamilton County, named for the first national commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau.
What is Howard?
All public facilities in Chattanooga were integrated in this year
When is 1963?
The courts ruled that Chattanooga had to change its elections to this form of government.
What are single-member districts?
Daily Double!
Evers was the first Mississippi field secretary of this organization.
What is the NAACP?
The Supreme Court ordered a stay of this punishment for Ed Johnson.
What is execution?
The Chattanooga District took action to arrest two men for committing this crime in McMinn County.
What is assaulting freedmen?
What is water hoses?
Today, Chattanooga has this many black city councilors.
Medgar Evers was attempting to integrate this School when he was shot.
What is the University of Mississippi?
The only criminal trial held by the Supreme Court was held in connection with Johnson's lynching, where Sheriff Joseph Shipp was tried for this crime.
What is contempt of court?
This General was the first Bureau commissioner for Tennessee (and Chattanooga).
Who is Clinton B. Fisk?
These three businesses were targeted by the student protesters.
What is McClellan's Lunch Counter, Woolworths, and W. T. Grant?
Prior to the VRA suit, Chattanooga was governed by a Commission elected by this strategy, considered discriminatory by the VRA.
What are at-large seats?