African American Flashcards
how many slaves were freed with the 13th amendment?
4 million
when was the 14th ammendment and what did it do?
- 1868
- give black people citizenship
when and what was the 15th ammendment?
- 1869-70
- vote can’t be denied because of race
when was the freedman beaureau?
1875
when was the 1875 civil rights act ruled unconstitutional?
1876
when was the southern compromise?
1877
when was grants victory due to 7 million black votes?
1869
when and what were the black vote percentages in carolina?
- 1880 and 1896
- 70% and 11%
when and what was the colfax massacre?
- 1873
- 150 blacks killed after republican governor elected
what did web du bois establish?
NAACP
what did booker t washington believe in?
- black progress slow
- had to be educated and prove themselves
who was madam C.J walker
- sharecropper family
- developed hair cream
- first black female millionaire
how many senators and representatives were in congress?
2 senators and 20 representatives
when was the plessy v ferguson case and what did it rule?
- 1896
- separate but equal
by 1910, how many black farmers owned land?
25%
what were the universities for black people?
fisk, howard, hampton institute
how many blacks in the south were illiterate by 1890?
over half
how many men and women were lyhced in the south between 1882 and 99
2500
when were segregated oil carriages first introduced in florida?
1887
what were the majority of black people like in 1900?
- 90% live in south
- most rely on farming, sharecropping or domestic service
when did missippi introduce the literacy test to vote
1890
how many black were lyched between 1889 and 1929?
3724 (only 4 sentenced)
when was the revival of the KKK and why?
- 1915
- the birth of a nation
when wee the race riots in missouri?
1915
what happened in the red summer of 1919
- race riots
- 13 days
- 38 dead
- 537 injured
- 1000 families without homes
what did booker t washington set up
tuskegee institute for training and education
what did web du bois founder?
niagra movement in 1905
reject washington caution approach
when was the NAACP set up?
1909 (because of 1904 viagra movement)
by 1920, how many lived in new york harlem
200,000
harlem renaissance
how many blacks moved in the migration north?
330,000 (high demand for labour and no jim crow laws and kkk)
how many black signed up for the war?
360,000 (government didn’t trust them)
what caused the 1919 red summer race riots?
migration north meant less jobs for white people
