A Mighty Long Way
Little Rock 9 (general info)
Mumbo Jumbo
Brown vs. Board of Education
Plessy V. Furguson
100
This member of the Little Rock 9 wrote A Mighty Long Way.
Who is Carlotta Walls LaNier?
100
This is the approximate number of soldiers that escorted the LR9 to school daily
What is 1200?
100
This little girl's experience was EXTREMELY similar to the Little Rock 9 Integration?
Who is Ruby Bridges?
100
This is the year when this case occurred.
What is 1954?
100
The two amendments Plessy used that were denied in court because the Supreme Court didn’t see how they violated it.
What are the 13th and 14th amendments?
200
He was blamed for the bombing of Carlotta's home?
Who is Carlotta's Childhood Friend?
200
This is the year in which the Little Rock 9 program started.
What is 1957?
200
What inspired the use of "X" in X-Men?
Malcolm X's use of the letter to replace is given slave name.
200
This is what NAACP stands for.
What is National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
200
Plessy V. Ferguson helped establish the legal justification of ...
Separate but Equal.
300
Name of Calotta's friend who refused allow Carlotta and Delores to give up their seat on the bus to a white man. (Chapter 2).
Who is Alexine?
300
This person was president during this time period.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
300
What year did the Plessy V. Ferguson case reach The Supreme Court?
1896
300
This Amendment declared this case unconstitutional
What is the 14th Amendment?
300
What was the court's final verdict on the Plessy V. Ferguson case?
Plessy was guilty on all accounts. Ruling (7-1).
400
The school Carlotta would have gone to if she had not attended Little Rock Central High (Chapter 3)
What is Horace Man?
400
This is the governor who was rivals with the president after the LR9 Integration
Who is Orval Faubus?
400
What happened to Max Eisenhardt (Magneto)'s mother in the X-Men comics and movie?
She was shot and killed by Nazis at Auschwitz, a concentration camp.
400
The case of Brown vs. Board of Education was considered one of the greatest cases of this century.
What is the 20th century?
400
What is a dissenting opinion?
An opinion/ belief that goes against what the majority believes.
500
A particular moment involving a member of the Little Rock 9 that Carlotta recalled reading about in The New York Times (Chapter 4)
What is the time when Elizabeth Eckford was escorted through a mob of racist to Little Rock Central High by a White woman named Mrs. Grace Lorch.
500
This is the exact date the LR9 Integration took place.
What is September 25, 1957?
500
What is Marvel's comic, X-Men, a commentary on?
It is a commentary on the civil right's movement and the struggle for people of all kinds to be treated as equal.
500
Who made this final decision: “the separation of children on the bias of race creates dangerous inferiority complexes that even if tangible facilities were equal between the black and white schools, racial segregation in schools is inherently unequal and thus always unconstitutional”
The Supreme Court
500
Who was the Supreme Court Justice that voiced their belief that the Supreme was being unconstitutional by not siding with Plessy?
Who is Justice John Marshal Harlan.