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• What is the term used to describe the legal seperation of citizens along lines of race?

  Segregation
• Give one example of Jim Crow laws?

  Separate schools / water fountains
• What did the Plessy vs Ferguson case state?

  Facilities could be seperate as long as they were equal
• What does NAACP stand for?


  National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People
• What does CORE stand for?

  Congress of Racial Equality
• Why did Linda Brown's parents take the Board of Education in Topeka to the Supreme Court?

  They didn't feel that her school was upholding Plessy vs Ferguson
• Who were the Little Rock Nine?

  Black students at a recently desegregated high school in Little Rock, Arkansas
• Who led the Little Rock Nine?

  Elizabeth Eckford
• What was the main cause for the Montgomery Bus Boycotts?

  Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white man
• What was the MIA?

  Montgomery Improvement Association
• What does boycott mean?

  An organised campaign to refuse to buy certain products
• How did African Americans get to work whilst the Boycott was on?

  The church set up a carpooling system
• Describe one provision of the 1957 Civil Rights Act

  Black people had the right to vote
• Who were the SCLC?

  Southern Christian Leadership Conference
• Who founded the SCLC?

  Martin Luther King Jr.
• Who were the Klu Klux Klan?

  A white supremacist organization infamous for lynching black people
• What does WASp stand for?

  White Anglo Saxon Protestant
• What is the term used to describe the mob execution of black people?

  Lynching
• What was the White Citizen's Council?

  A white supremacist group attempting to maintain segregation
• Who were the Dixiecrats?

  A political party who opposed segregation
• Give an example of direct action

  Sit-ins
• Where did the Greensborough sit-ins take place?


  Woolworths
• What does SNCC stand for?

  Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
• How did freedom riders take action over civil rights?

  They rode buses into segregated areas (black and white people)
• What happened in Anniston, Alabama?

  A bomb was thrown onto a Freedom Riders' bus
• Why is James Meredith significant?

  He was the first black student to enrol into a university
• What was Project C?


  Project Confrontation - riots trying to get Birmingham desegregated
• When was the March on Washington?


  August 28, 1963
• How many demonstrators were there at the March on Washington?


  250,000
• What famous speech was given at the March on Washington, and by who?

  'I have a dream' by Martin Luther King Jr
• What was the Freedom Summer?


  A campaign in the South to register black people to vote during the summer of 1964
• What were the names of the people killed by the KKK in the Mississippi Murders?


  Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner
• Which president passed the Civil Rights Act 1964?


  Lyndon B. Johnson
• Name one part of the Civil Rights Act 1964

  Discrimination when employing was banned
• What was the main aim of the March on Selma?


  To get rid of the barriers black people faced when trying to vote
• What was the Voting Rights Act?


  An act that outlawed laws that kept people from registering to vote eg literacy tests
• What did Malcolm X believe in?


  Seperatism
• Who led Black Power?


  Stokely Carmichael
• What did the Black Power movement want to achieve?

  Equality within the black community
• What did the Black Power athletes wear to the 1968 Mexico Olympics to show their support?


  A black glove on one fist and no shoes