HIST 10 1950s Quiz

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