What were Jim Crow Laws

Why was segregation legal?

Give 3 examples of segregated facilities

What was the belief many white people believed about black people

Why were officials discriminant against black americans?

Why did black Americans not get a fair trial?

Why couldn't black Americans register to vote?

What is the grandfather clause?

How did many employers stop black people from registering to vote?

What does NAACP mean and when was it formed?

What did the NAACP do?

What ruling did the NAACP focus on?

What does CORE mean and when was it formed?

What did CORE do?

Where were CORE primarily and what type of people were members?

What case did the NAACP present to show facilites weren't equal

How did NAACP show the disadvantages of segregation?

What did the NAACP argue that Plessy V. Ferguson was?

What did the courts rule in May 1954?

What did the courts then rule in May 1955?

How many school districts were desegregated by 1957?

What were the short term effects of Brown V. Topeka?

What were the long term effects of Brown V. Topeka?

What happened at Little Rock High School in 1957?

How were the 'Little Rock Nine' formed?

What were Governor Orval Faubus' views on segregation?

What did the Governor do to stop integration?

What happened on the 4th September at Little Rock High?

What happened to Elizabeth Eckford on this day?

What happened on the 24th September at Little Rock?

Why did Eisenhower have to become involved?

Why did Eisenhower use presidential powers?

What was the significance of the events at Little Rock

What happened on the 1st December 1955 in Montgomery?

What did Rosa Parks start?

What were the long term causes of the boycott?

What were the short term causes of the boycott?

When was the MIA formed and why?

Who was the chairman of the MIA?

How did the MIA maintain the boycott?

What did the MIA negotiate with black cab drivers?

What opposition to the boycott effected their chairman on 30 January 1956

Why was the media largely sympathetic to the civil rights campaigners?

Why was Rosa Parks used as a figurehead for the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Why was the Boycott successful

How was it well organized?

How was it committed to success?

How was it well publicized?

Why was the bus company hurt financially?

What did the supreme court rule about Montgomery?

When did the boycott end?

Why was Martin Luther King significant?

What is the SCLC and when was it founded?

Who was it led by?

Why were they successful?

How was the Civil Rights Act created?

What were the aims of the Civil Rights Act?

What is the KKK and when was it formed?

What did they do?

What were WASPs

Who else did the KKK attack?

Who was Emmett Till?

What did Bryant's husband do to Till?

What did Till's mother do with the body?

What happened to the murderers?

Who opposed the Civil Rights Act?

What were the Dixiecrats?

What did the Dixiecrats do in 1954?

Why was little done for Civil Rights in Congress?

What methods were used by many southern governors?

What was the WCC and when was it formed?

What did the WCC do to stop desegregation?