culteral literacy, set 4
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kaitlyn_chico on March 28, 2012
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The Fight Against Segregation
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 14th Amendment; 1868 | grants citizenship to al people "born or naturalized in the United States", including former slaves. It was created in this year. |
| Civil Rights Act of 1875 | prohibited racial discrimination in public places. States passed " ", which allowed segregation to exist |
| May 18, 1896; Plessy v. Fergusen | On __________, the supreme court ruled in ________v._______ that such "separate but equal" accommodations are constitutional |
| NAACP (national association for the advancement of colored people) | founded by black and white activists in Niagra Falls, New York, in 1909. |
| Niagra Falls, New York, 1909 | where was the NAACP founded, and when? |
| fought against Jim Crow laws and the segregation of schools | what was the NAACP's purpose? |
| separate but equal schools were inherently unequal; 1954 | what did the supreme court decide in the Brown vs Board of Education in what year? |
| desegregation | the courts ordered the ____________ in other schools in 1954 |
| Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas | blacks were refused admittance to what high school and where? |
| Eisenhower | this president sent US troops to Little Rock to protect and enforce the law |
| Emmett Till; supposedly whistling at a white girl | 14-year old black from Chicago was kidnapped and murdered, and for what? |
| photos of Emmett Till's tortured body | what sparked national outrage? |
| montgomery bus boycott | Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man; she was arrested and jailed, and her supporters refused to ride any buses until they were desegregated |
| Dr. Martin Luther King | he gained national prominence for his role in the boycotts |
| Scottsboro Boys | 9 black teens were accused of raping 2 white girls while they rode on the Southern Railroad freight train |
| Harper Lee; Tom Robinson | _________ wrote the trial of who in To Kill a Mockingbird based on the trial of the Scottsboro Boys? |
| sit-ins | blacks sat at the ""white only" lunch counters; led to the desegregation of retaurants. |
| Woolworth store in Greensboro, North Carolina | what and where was the most popular place for sit-ins? |
| 250,000; The March on Washington; 1963 | at the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech. Over ________ blacks and whites came to show their support (what and where?) |
| Chattanooga; memphis | the two girls who were "raped" by the Scottsboro Boys were on a train headed to and from where? |
| March 25, 1931 | when did the "raping" incident with the scottsboro boys and two girls take place? |
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