Eyes on the Prize
What was the name of the young man who was lynched for calling at a white woman?
Emmett Till
What does "segregated" mean?
To separate by race
How many students were in the Little Rock 9?
9
What is an upstander?
Someone who stands up in a situation in order to make it better
What is the 8th grade essential question?
What makes a civically engaged person?
What was the name of the city with the famous bus boycott that Martin Luther King Jr participated in?
Montgomery
Name one thing that was segregated in the South.
Lunch counters, water fountains, schools, buses, etc
True or False: All of the Little Rock 9 completed their first year at the school.
False
What is a bystander?
A person who decides not to help a situation and to just stand by and let things happen.
What was the name of the book John Lewis wrote to reflect on his life and The Civil Rights Movement?
March
What was the name of the group of kids who were the first group of African Americans to attend an all-white high school?
The Little Rock 9
True or False: Southerners resisted desegregation.
True
What caused President Eisenhower to make the decision to intervene in Little Rock during the Little Rock 9 crisis?
The students were being harassed, there were riots, etc
What is a perpetrator?
Someone who causes harm to a situation/makes a situation worse.
What does CEPP stand for?
Civic Engagement Presentation Project
What was the name of the man who fought to be the first African American man to attend The University of Mississippi (Ole Miss)
James Meredith
This supreme court case said that schools would now be segregated in America.
Brown v Board
What was the name of the high school that the Little Rock attended?
Central High School
What strategies are used to try and prevent change during this time?
riots, fighting at sit-ins, lynchings, mayors and governors not supporting supreme court decisions
What are the names of the 4 case studies in social studies?
Reconstruction, Industrial Revolution, Holocaust & WW2, The Civil Rights Movement
What major Civil Rights Movement event did John Lewis take part in?
Nashville Lunch-counter sit-ins
This supreme court case made it constitutional that America could be "separate but equal"
Plessy v Ferguson
What was the name of the student who entered the school by herself on the first day? (first and last)
Elizabeth Eckford
What strategies are used to try and create change during the Civil Rights movement.
Peaceful protests, presidents intervening, boycotts, sit-ins, national guards stepping in, etc
What does DC stand for? (Our class trip location)
District of Columbia