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This group of Southern Democrats left the Democratic Party in 1948 and formed the States' Rights Democratic Party.
Who were the Dixiecrats?
This movement brought many African Americans from the South to northern and western cities during the early 20th century.
What is the Great Migration?
This disaster occurred in 1927 and caused massive flooding throughout the Mississippi River Valley, severely affecting Mississippi.
Great Flood of 1927
This insect damaged cotton plants and became one of the major causes of declining cotton production in Mississippi during the 1920s.
What is the boll weevil?
Mississippi passed this law to attract industries and encourage economic development.
BAWI Act
This Supreme Court decision ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education
This amendment, ratified in 1920, gave women the constitutional right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This organization formed in Mississippi after Brown v. Board of Education and worked to resist school integration.
What was the Citizens’ Council?
This organization was founded in 1909 and worked against racial discrimination and segregation.
NAACP
This 14-year-old was murdered in Mississippi in 1955, and his death became an important national civil rights story.
Emmett Till
This Mississippi student attempted to attend the University of Southern Mississippi in 1959 and faced severe opposition.
Who was Clyde Kennard?
This Mississippi governor was nicknamed “The Great White Chief.”
Who was James K. Vardaman?
This severe economic downturn began in 1929 and continued through much of the 1930s.
What is the Great Depression?
This Mississippi activist served as the NAACP field secretary and was murdered outside his home in Jackson in 1963.
Who was Medgar Evers?
This 1965 law outlawed discriminatory voting practices such as literacy tests and strengthened federal protection of voting rights.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This legal principle prevented the men who murdered Emmett Till from being tried again after their acquittal.
What is double jeopardy?
During the “Revolt of the Rednecks,” poor white farmers and laborers from this region joined groups from other parts of Mississippi in an attempt to gain political control.
What is the Piney Woods region?
This 1964 civil rights campaign brought volunteers to Mississippi to register Black voters and establish Freedom Schools.
What was Freedom Summer?
This broad social movement sought equal treatment and equal rights for African Americans.
CRM
This Mississippi man was accused of murdering Medgar Evers. His first trial ended without a verdict because the jury could not agree.
Who was Byron De La Beckwith?
This term was often used to describe small, poor white farmers and day laborers in Mississippi.
What are rednecks?
Mississippi passed this resolution in response to Brown v. Board of Education, claiming the state could resist the Supreme Court's ruling.
What was the Resolution of Interposition?
This Mississippi civil rights activist was killed after working to help African Americans register to vote and offering to pay poll taxes for people who could not afford them.
Who was Vernon Dahmer?
This term describes segregation created or required by law.
What is de jure segregation?
This Mississippi governor was known by the nickname “The Man.”
Who was Theodore G. Bilbo?