Civil Rights in Mississippi

The most racially oppressive state in the South.

• Florida

• Georgia

• Tennessee

• Mississippi

This war marked the beginning of the civil rights movement in the US.

First black pilots to serve in the US military.

• Tuskegee Airmen

• NAACP

• SNCC

• US Army

Life on this continent was better for black people.

Number of NAACP members by the end of WWII.

• 126,00

• 136,000

• 146,000

• 156,000

These were the battlegrounds where the NAACP chose to fight Jim Crow.

This Amendment gave all citizens equal protection under the law.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

This Amendment gave all men the right to vote.

Which court ruled on Smith v. Allwright?

Black veterans organized these throughout the South.