Chapter 29 Questions
1. What were Jim Crow laws?
2. What did the NAACP focus on under the leadership of Thurgood Marshall?
3. What happened at Little Rock?
4. What association was formed after Rosa Parks was arrested?
5. Who became the leader of the Montgomery Improvement Association?

1)Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.

2) became the key strategist in the effort to end racial segregation, in particular meticulously challenging Plessy v. Ferguson , the Court-sanctioned legal doctrine that called for “separate but equal” structures for white and blacks.

3)Governor Orval Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling at Central High School. Central High was an all white school. ... Governor Faubus defied this decision.

4) Montgomery Improvement Association

5)Martin Luther King Jr.

Explanation:

1. the Jim Crow Laws were laws that enforced racial discrimination across the US.

2. After founding the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in 1940, Marshall became the key strategist in the effort to end racial segregation, in particular meticulously challenging Plessy v. Ferguson , the Court-sanctioned legal doctrine that called for “separate but equal” structures for white and blacks. Marshall won a series of court decisions that gradually struck down that doctrine, ultimately leading to Brown v. Board of Education , which he argued before the Supreme Court in 1952 and 1953, finally overturning “separate but equal” and acknowledging that segregation greatly diminished students’ self-esteem.

3. People protested the fact that African Americans could attend a formerly all white school. This happened after Brown v. Board of education.

4. Learning of Parks' arrest, the NAACP and other African American activists immediately called for a bus boycott to be held by black citizens on Monday, December 5. Word was spread by fliers, and activists formed the Montgomery Improvement Association to organize the protest.

5. Martin Luther King Jr.

Explanation:

although world war i began in 1914, the united states did not join the war until 1917. the additional firepower, resources, and soldiers of the u.s. to tip the balance of the war in favor of the allies. remaining neutral. when war broke out in 1914, the united states had a policy of neutrality.