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1. What was the Black Cabinet?
1. An informal network of African American public policy advisers.
2. started with 30 people
3. Men 27 and Women 3
2. Who was the leaders of the Black Cabinet?
1. Mary McLeod Bethune and Robert Weaver
3. Brown vs Board?
who brought case to surpreme courts?
1. NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Color People
4. Brown vs Board?
When was the case started and what was the agreement?
1. Case started in 1954
2. "Separated but equal is inherently unequal"
5. Brown vs Board?
What was the legal corner stone?
1. Provided the legal foundation of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
6. Who was Emmett Louis Till?
American teenager who was an early victim of civil rights-era violence.
(cousin dared him to say hi to a white woman)
7. Emmett Louis Till
When and where did the murder take place?
1. In 1955 in Money, Mississippi
8. What role did Mose Wright play?
1. Sept. 1955 Identified the body by the ring with Emmett intials.
2. Testified and eye witness
9. What role does JET magazine play?
1. Released photos of Emmett Tills corpse (funeral was open casket)
10. What role does Look magazine play?
1. Published the story of the murders about Emmett Till for 4,000 dollars
What was the Defense?
1.The body was so disfigured it could not be identified as Emmett L Till.
What was the verdict?
NOT GULITY!!!
(no body/no crime)
When was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

How long did the bus Boycott last?
1. December 1, 1955
2. 381 days
Who lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
and the (MIA) Montgomery Improvement Association
1. How did civil rights leaders use the media?
1. Pressured America to bring about change exposing the justice
2. What was the central potentially gobal conflict concerning the entire world at this time?
2. The Cold War of 1950's - 1960s
3. What are the 2 major outcomes of Bus Boycott?
3. Dec 20, 1956 Supreme Court strikes down soegregation on buses.
3. The black community was empowered.
4. What important Civil rights establishment were founded in 1957 after Bus Boycott?
4. (SCLC) Southern Christian Leadership Conference
5. Who were the leaders of SCLC?
5. President was Dr. Martin L King Jr.
5. First Executive Director was Ella Baker
6. Who was MLK?
1. Wrote "the Strength to Love"
2. Civil Rights leader
3. President of SCLC
7. Where and When did the SIT- IN take place?
1960 Greensboro NC
started with 4 black college students at the Woolworth's Counter
8. How did the movement change over the year?
70,000 black and white paricipated in sit-ins or marches in support.
9. Why were the students chosen?
9. Was able to think @ level of adults but didnt have the finicial restrictions.
10. What was the advantage of the students?
10. Students transformed the movement
1. What was the first student group to be formed out of the movement?
1. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC)
2. What was SNCC focus?
2. Jail-No-Bail
2. Voter Registration
2. Empowerment
3. What was the name of another student group?
3. (CORE) Congress of Racial Equality the Freedom Ride of 1961
4. Who organized the freedom ride?
4. Started with 7 blacks and 6 whites left D.C. on 2 public buses.
5. What happened with the 1st freedom ride?
5. Buses were attacked, fire bombed and the riders were beaten.
1. What happened on the 2nd freedom ride?
1. Federal government sent helicopators to evalucate freedom riders.
2. Who stayed behinod and who took over?
2. John Lewis stayed and (SNCC) Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committe took over rides continued
3. What was the outcome of the Freedom rides?
3. Spreaded to other transportation faculities and laws changed
4. What was Project C?
Project Confertation
5. What inspired King to write letter from Birmingham Jail?
5. Response to a group of white clergy
6. What was the core central meesage?
6. "Wait always means never"
7. Who invited children to march?
7. James Bevel
(children had fewer constraints)
8. What was Kings believe?
8. "Subpoena the coscience of the nation"
9. How many children marched on 1st and 2nd day?
9. Day 1: 900 taken to jail on paddy wagons ad school buses Day 2: 1000 stayed out of school to march
10. Who planned the march on Washington and purpose?
10. Philip Randolph
Purpose: Jobs and equal opportunity
1. What happened on the 2nd freedom ride?
1. Federal government sent helicopators to evalucate freedom riders.
2. Who stayed behinod and who took over?
2. John Lewis stayed and (SNCC) Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committe took over rides continued
3. What was the outcome of the Freedom rides?
3. Spreaded to other transportation faculities and laws changed
4. What was Project C?
Project Confertation
5. What inspired King to write letter from Birmingham Jail?
5. Response to a group of white clergy
6. What was the core central meesage?
6. "Wait always means never"
7. Who invited children to march?
7. James Bevel
(children had fewer constraints)
8. What was Kings believe?
8. "Subpoena the coscience of the nation"
9. How many children marched on 1st and 2nd day?
9. Day 1: 900 taken to jail on paddy wagons ad school buses Day 2: 1000 stayed out of school to march
10. Who planned the march on Washington and purpose?
10. Philip Randolph
Purpose: Jobs and equal opportunity
1. What was the speech given at the peacetime gatherinng?
1. "I have a Dream" MLK
1. aug 28 1863 1/4 million
1. largest peacetime gathering of that time
2. The most influential African American leader in the 2nd half of the 20th century?
2. Dr. Martin L King
3. Who was Malcolm X and two contributions?
3. Pan African ideologue
3. Muslim religious leader
3. Muhammad Speaks the NOI 1st nationally distrubuted newspaper
4. List two contributors during the Great Migration?
4. Chicago Defender
4.????????
5.Twp of the events that marked the begining of the civil rights movement?
5. Emmett Tills death and the Montgomery bus boycott