African American - presidents

Question 1

What did Roosevelt’s New Deal contain?

Answer 1

• Civillian Conservation Corps (CCC), 1933, provided work for the unemployed - regardless of race
• Fair Labour Standards Act (1938) (benefited blacks) - minimum wage

Question 2

What did President Truman do? (policy wise)

post war

Answer 2

He signed order 9981- ending segregation in the armed forces (1948)

Question 3

What did President Eisenhower do?

53-61

Answer 3

• The Justice Department now had a civil rights department
• appointed Earl Warren to the supreme court (liberal judge)

Question 4

What had changed by the 1960s?

Answer 4

Not alot

• The murder of Emmet Till (1955) and the aquittal of his killers by an all white jury shocked the USA.
• African Americans were better organised and more skillful at making demands.

Question 5

How did Little rock 9 change things?

Answer 5

• showed the president intervening with state forces on the side of the African Americans. (1957)

Question 6

What impact did president Kennedy have on civil rights?

Answer 6

• Difficult to take action given the southern bloc in congress.

Question 7

What forced civil rights to the forefront in 1963?

Answer 7

March on Washington by 250,000

Question 8

What is US v Mississippi?

Answer 8

• 1965 - Supreme court overturned a mississippi law discriminating against Black voter registration.

Question 9

What was the key feature of Johnson’s administration? (1963 - 69)

Answer 9

The federal government’s dismantling of the restrictive laws passed after 1877.

• Restrictions on voting ended and discrimination in public areas now illegal

Question 10

What did president Reagan do?

Answer 10

• cut funding to the Equal employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
• The number of law suits being brought by the EEOC dropped by 60%

Question 11

What are examples of economic inequality?

Answer 11

• 1989 - 21% of whites graduating college vs 11%.
• 1988, Black unemployment was 5% higher than whites,
• The gap between incomes increased from $7000 in 1950 to $12,000 in 1987.

Question 12

What were Roosevelt’s significant executive order

Answer 12

Executive Order 8587, 1940, prohibited discrimination by race, colour or creed.

Question 13

why was Roosevelt limited

Answer 13

limited by southern democrats in congress
- Couldn’t pass an anti-lynching bill

Question 14

when was the civil rights act passed

Answer 14

1964

Question 15

when was the EEOC created

Equal employment opportunities commision

Answer 15

1965