In what year did Brown v. Board of Education Topeka order the desegregation of public schools?

Where was Emmett Till born?

First African American to attend Ole Miss

Jewish college student from New York who was murdering for registering black voters

His "crime" was speaking to a white woman

Arrested, beaten, and jailed in Winona, MS for her work to register black voters

Where James Chaney was killed

NAACP field secretary murdered in Jackson, MS

What were sit-ins?

Who shot Medgar Evers?

This civil rights group was created specifically to give younger people and students a chance to have their voice heard.

This organization was created to improve relationships among Black and white people and to end discrimination in the United States by doing community and nationwide projects.

This word means the act of being apart or separated from the rest of society based on characteristics like skin color, gender, or social class.

A name for a violent organization that wrongly believes that white people are superior to everyone else on earth.

These places were created in 1964 in order to help educate Black adults and children

What event happened on August 4th, 1964 that sparked nation wide outrage, even among white people.

Voice of (MFDP) Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party at the 1964 democratic convention

This law banned discrimination in housing, the segregation of education, transportation, and employment, it helped African Americans gain their full voting rights.

In 1964, when blacks and whites together challenged segregation and led a massive drive to register blacks to vote.

This act made racial, religious, and sex discrimination by employers illegal and gave the government the power to enforce all laws governing civil rights, including desegregation of schools and public places.

Nonviolent protests in which a person sits and refuses to leave a segregated area until either served or arrested

A ________________ required a person to pay a fee before being able to vote.

A ___________________ required a person to prove they could read before they could register to vote.

This law banned all literacy tests that kept many African Americans from voting.

During his second term as governor Hugh L. White initiated what very unpopular program?

Who was governor of Mississippi during the Great Depression

Governor Conner addressed Mississippi's financial crisis during the Great Depression by proposing

What year did the Great Flood of Mississippi occur?

Which insect was a serious problem for cotton production in the 1920s?

History professor at Alcorn State University who tried to attend Ole Miss

Veteran and Civil Rights Activist who tried to attend Southern Miss University and was later jailed for false testimony

Civil Rights Activist who was killed in a fire bombing of his home in Hattiestburg by the KKK

A black man, mis-identified as white, used the Navy V-12 Program to attend Ole Miss from 1945-46

Nellah Massey Bailey was the first woman to serve in an elected position in Mississippi.

The first black man elected to the Mississippi State Legislature since 1894.