HIST 10 1950s Quiz
Across
- 2. he replaced Bayard Rustin as organizer of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
- 3. This campaign saw black soldiers and veterans from WWII take a pledge to fight racism abroad and at home
- 6. this government program offered unemployment and educational benefits to WWII veterans as thanks and to keep them out of the workforce
- 7. she was a prominent member of the white southern dissenting tradition and had been active in the campaign to abolish the poll tax
- 9. These kinds of jobs were mostly available to women, such as secretaries, assistants, and typists
- 10. this was the legal arm of the Civil Rights Movement that fought segregation in the courts
- 12. he was the mayor of Montgomery and opposed the boycott, alienating some of his white voters
- 14. This emerged with Dwight Eisenhower's election in 1952, and saw Republicans accept the New Deal welfare state
- 15. it was the site of the 1955 bus boycott movement
- 17. he was a white preacher to a majority black church who endorsed the boycott and joined civil rights groups to help
- 18. he was a young black preacher in Montgomery who became the face of the boycott
- 22. He was considered the Evangelical President, being the first to be baptized in office
- 24. it was an interracial training center for labor, socialist and religious community organizers in the South
Down
- 1. He was the most popular religious speaker of the 1950s
- 3. This campaign saw black soldiers and veterans from WWII take a pledge to fight racism abroad and at home
- 4. this white southern group strongly opposed the boycott and appealed to unity among white southerners against it
- 5. In 1948, the Democratic Party added this issue to their party platform, it drove four southern states out of the party in a protest movement
- 8. she was a secretary of the local NAACP and triggered a bus boycott in Montgomery, AL
- 11. he was a young black boy from Chicago who was lynched in Mississippi visiting relatives. His death galvanized the Civil Rights Movement
- 13. She was born Norma Jean Mortensen and became the most famous icon of womanhood in the 1950s
- 16. black women mostly performed this kind of work, which explains why many white southern women supported the boycott
- 19. he was the editor of the Montgomery Advertiser which was friendly to the boycott
- 20. Rosa Parks was arrested for violating this state law
- 21. he was a veteran of WWII and the first black major league baseball player
- 23. This church group saw its membership grow in the 1950s
- 24. He was an austrian born intellectual who argued any expansion of government would lead to communism