African American History 1940-2020

Question 1

What was the FEPC?

Answer 1

Fair Employment Pracitces Committee
Roosevelt
banns discrimination in employment
> more jobs at better wages
> greater range of occuptations for Black

Question 2

What was the role of Blacks in World War 2?

Answer 2

many fought but in segregated army

towards end of the war: integration in the Army

Question 3

Which two Organizations fight for Civil Rights in the 50s-70s?

Answer 3

NAACP = National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

CORE = Congress of Racial Equality

Question 4

What did the Brown vs Board decision of Education of Topeka (Kansas) decide?

Answer 4

school segregation is against the Constitution

Question 5

Did the school integration work?

Answer 5

No not really
many schools closed down or went privat
segregated black and white neighborhoods > schools

Question 6

What was introduced to help the shool integration?

Answer 6

School Bus System

to mix up races

Question 7

What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Answer 7

Rosa Parks refuse to give up seat to white person

> Martin Luther King oragnizes Bus Boycott in Montgomery

Question 8

What was the outcome of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Answer 8

Supreme Court decides that segregation in public transport is against Constitution

Question 9

What did Martin Luther King organize?

Answer 9

Montgomery School Boycott
CLC = Christian Leadership Conference
SNCC = The Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee
Selma to Montgomery Marches

Question 10

What was the new slogan after Martin Luther King?

Answer 10

Freedom Now

Question 11

What were the Selma and Montgomery marches?

Answer 11

1. : policemen brutal against marchers
2. Martin Luther King kneeled down, prayed, turned marchers around
3. successful march to Montgomery in 5 days

Question 12

What did the Civil Rights Movement had for consequences?

Answer 12

Civil Rights Act
forbids discrimination in voting, public, employment
permits US to deny federal funds to local agencies practicing discrimination

Voting Rights Act
forbids literacy tests + property tests + poll tax
> more Blacks are able to vote

Question 13

What were the “long, hot summers” in the 1960s?

Answer 13

violent outbreaks after murder Martin Luther King
against police brutality, inadequate educational facilities, unemployment, poor housing
Watts, Newark, Detroit

Question 14

Which 2 groups played a major role in the Black Power Movement?

Answer 14

Black Muslims (under Malcom X)
Black Panthers (under Eldridge Cleaver)

Question 15

What happened in the 1970s?

Answer 15

Affirmation action programs: quota system, reverse discrimination?

econmic crisis hit Blacks badly

Question 16

What happened in the 1980s?

Answer 16

rising black middle class

L. Douglas Wilder: 1. black governor Virginia

Marshall. 1. black in Supreme Court

Question 17

Who and where was the first black student at a white uni?

Answer 17

James H. Meredith

University of Mississippi

Question 18

What are examples for the racial tension in the 1990s?

Answer 18

The Rodney King Riots: police brutality against blacks
O.J.Simpson: victory over white legal system
Louis Farrakhan’s Million Man March

Question 19

Who is Barack Obama?

Answer 19

1. Black President US

police brutality against blacks
Black Lives Matter Movement

Question 20

Who is Donald Trump?

Answer 20

current republican President

Racism
links Blacks to violent crimes

Question 21

Despite the growing black middle and upper middle class, what have studies shown?

Answer 21

African Americans have 
higher unemployment
more adults in prison
less education
less income 
more single parent
more teenage pregnancies
more crime
more people living below the poverty line

Question 22

Name some famous African Americans in the late 20th and 21st century

Answer 22

Oprah Winfrey
Halle Berry
Tiger Woods

Question 23

Name an important black writer in the late 20th century

Answer 23

Alice Walker: The Color Purple