Race Relations in the USA 1955-1968 [22 Questions]

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How did the population of black people in America originally come to exist?
Slaves were originally brought to America to work the cotton and tobacco plantations in the south.
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What was the purpose of the ‘Jim Crow laws’ (1828-1964)?
They made segregation legal in southern states.
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Why were the Ku Klux Klan rarely convicted for their crimes?
They were often protected by police officers who were KKK members, and white juries were reluctant to find KKK members guilty.
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Segregation was founded on the doctrine of 'separate, but equal'. How did the NAACP use this to their advantage in the 'Brown vs. Topeka' case?
They said this could not apply to segregation in schools because a message of inequality was being sent out to black children, making them feel inferior and therefore less likely to learn than white children.
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Why did such a small incident spark the 381 day long Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Black leaders in the city had been planning a boycott for a long time, and had missed several opportunities already, so were ready to pounce.
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Why was Emmett Till murdered in 1955?
He wolf-whistled at a white shopkeeper.
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What did Emmett Till's mother insist on?
Her son having an open casket so that the world could see his mutilated body.
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Why did Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, say he was bringing in the National Guard at Little Rock High?
Because he had heard that armed student gangs were forming, and needed to keep the peace.
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Why did media coverage of the incident at Little Rock show the USA in a bad light?
It made the country appear hypocritical, having criticised the USSR on its human rights.
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The Greensboro sit-ins (1960) challenged the segregation in which chain cafe?
Woolworth
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Why were the freedom rides (1961) called 'an act of calculated martyrdom'?
The riders knew they would be attacked
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How did the 1963 freedom marches encourage President LBJ to pass the Civil Rights Act?
Brutality against the marchers led to national outcry when shown on television.
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During which Freedom March did Martin Luther King give his famous 'I have a dream' speech?
Washington
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Why did Malcolm X reject his surname, 'Little'?
He said this would have been the name his family received from slave owners when shipped over from Africa, and he did not know his true name.
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In what year and what city were the olympics held when Tommie Smith and John Carlos made a Black Power salute on the podium?
Mexico, 1968
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In what year was King awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?
1964
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What did the 1964 Civil Rights Act make illegal?
Racial discrimination in public places.
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In what year was Martin Luther King assassinated?
1968
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What was the purpose of the ‘Jim Crow laws’ (1828-1964)?

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They made segregation legal in southern states.

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Why were the Ku Klux Klan rarely convicted for their crimes?

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Card 4

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Segregation was founded on the doctrine of 'separate, but equal'. How did the NAACP use this to their advantage in the 'Brown vs. Topeka' case?

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Why did such a small incident spark the 381 day long Montgomery Bus Boycott?

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