Which Supreme Court case first established the ‘separate but equal’ principle of segregation?
Plessy v Ferguson
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka
Browder v Gayle
Who was the lawyer who led the Linda Brown case?
Daisy Bates
Thurgood Marshall
Dr Martin Luther King Jnr
What did many white people join to try to stop desegregation?
White Citizens’ Councils
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Congress
How did Virgil Blossom try to slow down desegregation in schools?
He intimidated black students
He passed a law to stop desegregation
He put more funding into schools for black students
Who ordered troops to protect the black students at Little Rock?
President Dwight D Eisenhower
Governor Orval Faubus
Superintendent Virgil Blossom
Which of the black students arrived separately on their first day at Little Rock and faced a white mob?
Ernest Green
Minnijean Brown
Elizabeth Eckford
Who led the bus boycott in Montgomery in 1955-1956?
Rosa Parks
How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?
Over a year
Around a month
One day
Which organisation brought southern civil rights activists together?
Montgomery Improvement Association
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Which event aimed to help more black voters register to vote?
The Brown v Topeka judgement
The passing of the 1957 Civil Rights Act
The Montgomery Bus Boycott