1.1 Life For Black Americans In The 1950s

Question 1

What was life like for black American’s across America in 1950?

Answer 1

• lived in worst parts of town
• had worst schools and facilities
• had worst jobs(couldn’t get training for good ones)

Question 2

What was four examples of segregation in the south?

Answer 2

• blacks couldn’t use the same tiolets as whites
• they couldn’t swim in thr same swimming pools
• couldn’t go to the same resturants
• seperated on buses

Question 3

Black people had the right to vote, so why didn’t they

Answer 3

They were threatened by whites

Question 4

What did black people do to try and cuase change in their communities and across America?

Answer 4

Joined civil rights groups

Question 5

What was segregation the result of in the north?

Answer 5

Discrimination-not law

Question 6

What was segregation the result of in the south?

Answer 6

Jim crow laws

Question 7

What is four things that the Jim Crow laws prevented black people from doing in southern states?

Answer 7

• eating in white restaurants
• sit in coloured buss seats(arrested if refused)
• seperate seats in church
• seperate schools

Question 8

Give 4 examples of white southerns attitudes towards black people?

Answer 8

• black people seen as inferior and unintelligent
• white people who stood up for blacks faced violence
• courts and police full of racist officals
• black on black crime was not seen in court

Question 9

After WW2, what did many blacks and whites want?

Answer 9

More equality

Question 10

By 1956, what percentage of black people were voting in the south and why?

Answer 10

-20%

• white employers threatening to sack them
• white gangs

Question 11

What are 5 reasons for the growth of civil rights groups?

Answer 11

• education
• ww2
• tv
• cold war
• migration(poor black people go north, rich black people go south)

Question 12

What are two civil rights groups that campaigned for intergration?

Answer 12

NACCP

CORE

Question 13

What did the NACCP and CORE do for civil rigts?

Answer 13

NACCP focused on fighting for rights in court

CORE focused on non violent direct action(peaceful protests)

Question 14

Churches were the centre of black communities, why were black clergymen crucial for civil rights?

Answer 14

• paid by church(can’t be sacked)
• effective speakers
• educated
• can organise events