Miscellaneous 1
He was a 14 year old boy from Chicago. While visiting his cousin in Mississippi he was murdered by two grown white men for whistling at a woman at a gas station.
Who was Emmett Till?
These two events caused the cotton crop in Mississippi to be completely destroyed.
The Flood of 1927 and the invansion of the boll weevil.
This was the drastic and rapid fall of stock prices experienced by the New York Stock Exchange in October 1929.
What was The Panic of 1929?
This is a social movement to secure the equal treatment of blacks under the law.
What is The Civil Rights Movement?
This event is considered by some historians to be what launched the Civil Rights Movement in the United States in the late 1950's.
What was the murder of Emmett Till?
These are two of the largest military bases which are located in Mississippi.
What are Camp Shelby and Keesler Air Force Base?
Governor Conner introduced this in the state of Mississippi to pay off the state debt and help get additional revenue.
What was the 2% sales tax?
What was The Great Depression?
BAWI stands for this.
What is Balance Agriculture with Industry?
What is the double jeopardy clause of the United States Constitution?
These are better-quality roads, usually a highway, that farmers and ranchers use to transport products to market towns or distribution centers.
What are farm to market roads?
This was the most important industry attracted to Mississippi under the BAWI.
This was the Supreme Court decision that ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
What was Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas?
A tax on food, clothing, and other items purchased in an open market is referred as this type of tax.
What is a sales tax?
This was the largest canning plant in Mississippi in the 1930's. It was a pickle factory in this city.
What was Wiggins?
This Mississippi Governor implemented the BAWI program in the state.
Who was Hugh L. White?
What are the ages of 6 and 17?
The term "seperate but-equal" comes from this Supreme Court case ruling of 1896. It made Jim Crow Laws and segregation legal.
What was Plessy vs. Ferguson?
Southern Democrats who left the Democratic Party and formed The State's Rights Democratic Party.
Who were The Dixiecrats?
Governor Hugh L. White had this reaction to the Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
What was determined to prevent desegregation in Mississippi public schools?
He was the President of The United States when The Great began.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
This interracial organization was founded in 1909 to work for the abolition of segragation and discrimination.
What was the NAACP (The National Associated for the Advancement of Colored People)?
What was The Citizens' Council?
What was the Resolution of Interposition?
These were the four classifications of farmers in Mississippi beginning in the 1920's.
What were: landowners, renters, tenants, and sharecroppers?