Civil Rights Movement
What was the Supreme Court ruling in the case
Plessy v. Ferguson?
Plessy v. Ferguson ruled that “separate but equal” facilities was constitutional.
What civil rights activist became the first African American to graduate from Ole Miss?
James Meredith
Jury that is unable to agree on a verdict
What is hung jury
A school organized to encourage blacks to exercise their rights as American citizens , by informing them about voter registration procedures and teaching them how to answer difficult questions was called a ___________ school.
Freedom
Who was Emmett Till?
A 14 year old boy who was killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman in Money, MS.
Till’s accused murders admitted to their guilt and were acquitted.
Civil rights activities in Mississippi in 1964 were given the name___________.
Freedom Summer
Ruling body of higher education in Mississippi
What is college board
Substance that blinds the eyes with tears and is used to dispel mobs
What is tear gas
A civil rights organization made of an interracial group of students that advocated nonviolence was called ___________________.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee(SNCC)
What civil rights legislation outlawed literacy tests and poll taxes?
Voting Rights Act of 1965
the ruling that the “separate- but-equal” principle in
American public schools violated the Constitution.
Famous Supreme Court case that outlawed separation of race in public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas in 1954.
Who was the NAACP Field Secretary who was murdered in his driveway in Jackson?
Medgar Evers
Group of people parading about a certain issue
What is demonstration
Which organization was founded after the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Southern Christian Leadership Conference(SCLC)
Who were Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman?
Three civil rights workers killed in Neshoba County for registering blacks to vote
Protest where people enter a public facility and refuse to leave until their demands are heard.One type of non-violent protest that was displayed in diners.
What is sit-ins
Which civil rights activist was famous for saying he or she was “sick and tired of being sick and tired?”
Fannie Lou Hamer
What is a boycott?
A protest in which people refuse to buy certain items until specific conditions are met
What were Freedom Schools?
A school organized to encourage blacks to exercise their rights as American citizens, by informing them about voter registration procedures and teaching them how to answer difficult questions.
Convicted in killing Medgar Evers
Byron De La Beckwith
organization which supports the abolition of segregation and discrimination
What is the NAACP
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
.
President of the United States who understood the importance of civil rights
Who is John F. Kennedy
Murder of a prominent person, usually for political reasons
What is assassination
What happened to Clyde Kennard in 1960 when he was accused of a crime?
He was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to seven years in Parchman prison.
Trial that has no legal effect because of some error in the proceedings
mistrial