Jim Crow
The separation of people based on race.
What is segregation?
During Jim Crow, what practice required Black and white children to attend separate schools?
What is school segregation?
This war lasted from 1914 to 1918 and involved countries worldwide.
What is WWI
This global war lasted from 1939 to 1945.
What is WWII
This 14-year-old African American boy was murdered in Mississippi in 1955.
Who is Emmett Till?
Laws and customs that enforced racial segregation and discrimination.
What are Jim Crow Laws
During segregation, which race in Mississippi generally received fewer educational resources?
What were Black students?
The United States entered World War I in this year.
What is 1917?
This attack on December 7, 1941, led the United States to enter World War II.
What was the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Emmett Till was visiting relatives in this Mississippi region when he was abducted and murdered.
Unfair treatment of people based on characteristics such as race.
What is discrimination?
This legal doctrine claimed that racial segregation was acceptable as long as facilities for Black and white people were supposedly equal.
What is Seperate but Equal
This event helped lead the United States to enter World War I after German submarines attacked ships.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare/Sinking of the Lusitania
This German nationalist ordered his troops to invade Poland and led the annihilation of most of Europe's Jewish population.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
Double jeopardy is a legal protection that prevents a person from being prosecuted or punished twice for the same criminal offense.
What is Double Jeopardy
Segregation required by law.
What is de jure segregation?
What 1896 Supreme Court case upheld the “separate but equal” doctrine?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
These African American soldiers served in segregated units during World War I.
Who were African American soldiers?
Which country launched the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor?
What is Japan?
This woman insisted on an open-casket funeral so the world could see what had happened to her son.
Who is Emmett Till's Mother
What was the Mississippi Constitution of 1890 used to help restrict?
African Americans' voting rights.
Why was “separate but equal” often unequal in Mississippi's public schools?
What is the fact that Black schools frequently received less funding, older textbooks, and fewer educational resources than white schools?
How did World War I help contribute to the Great Migration?
What is African Americans moving from the rural South to Northern cities for industrial jobs and opportunities?
What did President Franklin D. Roosevelt call December 7, 1941, in his famous speech to Congress?
What is “a date which will live in infamy”?
How did Emmett Till's murder and the public response help influence the Civil Rights Movement?
What is the outrage over his murder that helped draw national attention to racial violence and strengthen the fight for civil rights?