1.1 Black Americans In The Early 1950s

Question 1

In the south what was segregation based of of

Answer 1

Racist laws called Jim Crow laws, set out to completely segregate white people from blacks

Question 2

What are some examples of Jim Crow laws

Answer 2

Blacks could not eat with whites, blacks could get thrown off buses for nit sitting in their section, had to go to black schools

Question 3

After the war how many black Americans were registered to vote

Answer 3

20%

Question 4

Why did black Americans not vote

Answer 4

This is because the southern people made it hard for them with their racist tactics such as:

Threatening to fire them
Physically stoppimg them by waiting outside in gangs
Beating people up
Making them take tests before

Question 5

What was NAACP

Answer 5

This was an organisation that focused in civil rights in the courts.
For example they set up a Legal Defense Fund (LDF) for wrongly convicted appeals

Question 6

What is CORE

Answer 6

This was an organisation that focused on desegregation not in the courts
For example they did non violent protests such as sit inns, boycotts with trained people