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African American flashcards, thematicised.

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What were the achievements of Lincoln?

1861-1865

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Abraham Lincoln

Republican - 1863 - Emancipation Proclamation - 1865 - 13th Amendment - abolished slavery - Struggled against war and attitudes

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What were the achievements of Andrew Johnson? 1865-1869

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Andrew Johnson

Democrat 1868 - enacted 14th Amendment - citizenship. 2AA senators elected - Impeached for vetoing every Bill that furthered Reconstruction - Granted Pardons to Southern rebels, rich planters asserted their authority

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What were the achievements of Ulysses S. Grant?

1869-1877

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Ulysses S. Grant

  • Republican*
  • Promised support for AA civil rights, however scandal and support in the south weakened
  • 1870 - enacted the 15th Amendment - right to vote - first AA in Congress
  • 1871 - Enforcement Acts banned the KKK
  • Financial Scandal, economic crisis, post-war recovery and attitude overall hindered progress
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What were the achievements of Rutherford B Hayes?

1877-1881

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Rutherford B Hayes

  • Republican*
  • Only elected through a commitment to the end of Reconstruction
  • Too weak to prevent Southern Democrats repealing Acts supporting the franchise of AAs
  • Post war and attitudes hindered.
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What were the achievements of James A Garfield?

1881 (Assassinated)

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James A Garfield

Republican

  • Appointed AAs to important posts - Douglass (recorder of deeds in Washington), Blanche K Bruce (register to the Treasury)
  • Tried to weaken Southern Democrats
  • Unfortunately, killed
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What were the achievements of Chester A Arthur?

1881-1885

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Chester A Arthur

Republican

  • Too distracted with rebuilding the nation post-war to care
  • 1883 - Too weak to stop Congress removing the 1875 Civil Rights Act

Hindrance

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What were the achievements of Grover Cleveland?

1885-1889 & 1893-1897

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Grover Cleveland

Democrat

  • Apathetic to AA Civil Rights - allowed racism to continue
  • Did not support NAACP or Niagra Movements
  • Boasted he’d never share a table with an AA
  • Failed to follow up Reconstruction
  • Allowed lynching to continue - refused to support Ida B Wells

Hindrance

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What were the achievements of Benjamin Harrison?

1889-1893

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Benjamin Harrison

  • Republican*
  • Tried and failed to protect AA Civil Rights, get better education, stop lynching and support groups
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What were the achievements of William McKinley?

1897-1901

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William McKinley

Republican (Assassinated)

  • Didn’t focus on AA Civil Rights
  • Let racial violence continue
  • Appointed AAs to low paid jobs
  • Bystander, too occupied with the war in Spain from 1898

Hindrance

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What were the achievements of Theodore Roosevelt?

1901-1909

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Theodore Roosevelt

Republican

  • 1901 - Appointed Booker T Washington as an advisor, entertained him at dinner (first AA to dine with a president) - considered an empty token by many
  • Supported AA education
  • Spending on education was unequal
  • Appointed some AA to Federal Offices
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What were the achievements of William Howard Taft?

1909-1913

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William Howard Taft

Republican

  • Endorsed Booker T’s policy of education
  • Believed Civil Rights were an issue of States’ Rights
  • Allowed violence to continue
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What were the achievements of Woodrow Wilson?

1913-1921

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Woodrow Wilson

Democrat

  • Racist
  • Allowed Jim Crow to flourish
  • Left States to address race alone
  • Filled administration with Southern Democrats
  • Encouraged official segregation
  • Supported KKK
  • Refused to grant poverty stricken AA benefits

Hindrance

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What were the achievements of Warren G Harding

1921-1923

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Warren G Harding

Republican

  • Believed the South had a deeper understanding of racial problems
  • 1921 - Birmingham, first President to openly advocate civil rights
  • Anti-lynching Bill - Dyer bill
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What were the achievements of Calvin Coolidge?

1923-1929

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Calvin Coolidge

Republican

  • KKK lost influence during this term - refused to appoint known members
  • Spoke out in favour of Civil Rights and AA
  • Appointed AA to Federal Offices
  • Called for anti-lynching legislation
  • Declared the rights of 12 million AA as ‘sacred’ as everyone elses
  • Achieved nothing - Congress overruled
  • 1928 - Oscar De Priest elected to Congress, first in 20th Century
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What were the achievements of Herbert Hoover?

1929-1933

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Herbert Hoover

Republican

  • Received lots of AA support in election
  • Used ‘race’ card to win democrat votes
  • 1930 - attempted to appoint a racist Supreme Court judge, stopped by NAACP
  • Thought AA would naturally educate themselves and assimilate
  • Lost the confidence of the people
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What were the achievements of Franklin D Roosevelt?

1933-1945

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Franklin D Roosevelt

Democrat

  • Personally sympathetic to the AA
  • Snubbed Jesse Owens, even after winning 4 gold medals
  • New Deal - 30% of AA on relief
  • Depended on Southern Democrats - could not do more for AAs in the New Deal - told Walter White (NAACP secretary) that he had to keep on S. Democrat side
  • Denounced lynching as ‘a vile form of collective murder’ but wouldn’t push for anti-lynching legislation in case his lost S. Democrat support ·
  • 1941 – signed an order forbidding racial discrimination in employing defence workers ·
  • Struggled with poor economy and war plus attitudes of S. Democrats
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What were the achievements of Harry S Truman?

1945-1953

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Harry S Truman

Democrat

  • Created the President’s Committee on Civil Rights, October 1947
  • 1948 - Executive Order desegregating the army and navy
  • 1948 - Executive Order made racial discrimination illegal when applying for civil service positions
  • Supported anti-lynching
  • Refused to bow to Southern Democrats

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What were the achievements of Dwight D Eisenhower?

1953-1961

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Dwight D Eisenhower

Republican

  • 1953 - appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren
  • 1954 - outlawed discrimination in D.C.
  • 1957 - intervened to stop Governor Faubus in Little Rock
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What were the achievements of John F Kennedy?

1961-1963

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John F Kennedy

Democrat

  • Released MLK from Birmingham jail, supported the march on Washington
  • Worked on the Voting Rights Act
  • Supported integration
  • Tried to avoid civil rights
  • 1962 - reluctantly supported Meredith with 3000 troops
  • Intervened in Birmingham and Alabama
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What were the achievements of Lyndon B Johnson?

1963-1969

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Lyndon B Johnson

Democrat

  • 1964 - Civil Rights Act, outlawed segregation - broke a S Democrat filibuster
  • 1965 Voting Rights Act - secured the AA right to vote
  • 1965 Higher Education Act - gave AA better quality education and opportunities
  • Elected Thurgood Marshall as Supreme Court Justice
  • Occupied with Vietnam, fell out with MLK
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What were the achievements of Richard Nixon?

1969-1974

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Richard Nixon

Republican

  • Desegregated school bussing
  • Did not approve of black panthers
  • Rejected Ralph Abernathy’s demands for social reform
  • Tried to win S. Democratic vote
  • Affirmative Action - positive discrimination
  • 1972- Equal Rights Amendment
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What were the achievements of Gerald Ford?

1974-1979

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Gerald Ford

Republican

  • Worked with Civil Rights leaders
  • Appointed first AA transport secretary - William T Coleman
  • Did not look for AA votes
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What were the achievements of Jimmy Carter?

1977-1981

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Jimmy Carter

Democrat

  • Inexperienced in federal politics
  • Appointed 37 AA judges - x2 previous appointments
  • Did not have the support, economic stability of liberal SC to bring civil rights
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What were the achievements of Ronald Reagan?

1981-1989

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Ronald Reagan

Republican

  • Opposed civil rights legislation in the 1960s
  • Administration ‘colour-blind’ - tried to resist affirmative action
  • Economic slump led to Reagan cutting benefits - AAs got caught in a cycle which increased bifurcation
  • Appointed a Conservative Justice to the Supreme Court, cautious with civil rights
  • Tried to veto the Civil Rights Restoration Act, 1988
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What were the achievements of George H W Bush?

1989-1992

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George H W Bush

Republican

  • Only 6.9% of his appointments were from racial minorities
  • Spoke against black crime
  • 1990 - Vetoed a civil rights Bill because he opposed affirmative action
  • 1991 - Appointed Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, a black, conservative, Republican lawyer
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When was the Freedman’s Bureau created?

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1865

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When was the 13th Amendment ratified?

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1865

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When was the first Civil Rights Act passed, and what did it contain?

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  • Passed in 1866
  • Should have guaranteed legal equality but they feared in could be declared unconstitutional
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When and what was the Military Reconstruction Act?

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  • 1867
  • Divided the South into 5 military zones, must agree to civil rights before forming state governments
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Who were the notable radical Republicans, and what did they believe?

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  • Thaddeus Stevens
  • Charles Sumner
  • AAs were vital to US economy, and must be given citizenship
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How many AAs were elected to Congress?

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House of Representatives: 20

Senate: 2

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When were the Force Acts brought in, and what did they try to do?

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Introduced in 1870, aimed to increase access to franchise for AAs

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When did the Freedman’s Bureau lose its funding?

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1872, leading to its closure. Support for education fell dramatically

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What did the 1871 Civil Rights Act do?

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Protected AAs from the KKK

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What did the 1875 Civil Rights Act bring?

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An attempt to stop de facto segregation that had developed - not enforced

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Name one type of vote restriction imposed through legislation in the South, which continued post-1877

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  • Grandfather Clauses: The legislation suggested that only those with enfranchised grandparents had the right to vote
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Did Congress support the measures of Ida B Wells?

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No

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How many AAs were in Congress or state legislatures in 1915?

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None.

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Why was Oscar De Priest signficant?

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Oscar De Priest was the first AA to be elected to Congress since 1900 (he was elected in 1928)

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During the 1920s and 1930s, who dominated Congress?

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Southern Democrats

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When was Adam Clayton Powell elected to the House of Representatives?

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1945, challenged de facto segregation

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Who opposed the 1957 Civil Rights Act, and why?

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Southern Democrats - LBJ had to water down the bill in order to secure its passage. Initially planned to expand the Civil Rights Commission in the Justice Department – very weak

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What did the 1960 Renewed Civil Rights Commission do?

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Encouraged senior posts to be allocated to the AA. Made bombing and mob action a punishable crime

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What did Attorney General Robert Kennedy do?

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Forcefully implemented favourable Supreme Court decisions - e.g. Federal intervention to get Meredith into university

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What did the 1964 Civil Rights Act bring?

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Banned all racial discrimination, established Fair Employment Practice Commission

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What did the **1965 Voting Rights Act **bring?

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The abolition of all voting registration requirements that penalised AAs.

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When did Congress become distracted by Vietnam first?

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1966

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When and what did the fair Housing Act bring?

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Racial discrimination in house sales made illegal - passed begrudingly

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What did the Equal Opportunity Act bring?

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Equal Opportunity Act, 1972 - affirmative action, gave the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission more power

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When was Andrew Young elected to Congress?

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1972

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When was the Voting Rights Act renewed?

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1982 - strengthened with stricter rules against discrimination

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When was Martin Luther King Day introduced?

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1983

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How many AAs were elected into Congress in 1992?

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36 AAs

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What did the 1873 Slaughterhouse Case confirm?

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1873 Slaughterhouse Case

  • States controlled civil rights
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What did **1876 US vs Cruickshank **conclude?

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Federal government had no power over individuals, only states. 100 men dropped of the murder charge

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What did the 1896 Plessy vs Ferguson case conclude?

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1896 Plessy vs Ferguson

Separate but equal.

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What did **1898 Mississippi vs Williams **conclude?

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1898 Mississippi vs Wiliams

Attempted to appoint AA juries - rejected

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What did the **1898 Cumming vs Board of Education **conclude?

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**1898 Cumming Vs Board of Education **

Separate but equal extended to schools

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Guinn Vs US

What did the 1915 Guinn Vs US conclude?

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Guinn Vs US

Grandfather Clauses outlawed in Maryland and Oklahoma

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What did the **1917 Buchanan Vs Warley **conclude?

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1917 Buchanan Vs Warley

Residential segregation in Louisville, Kentucky deemed unconstitutional based on property rights only

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1923 Moore Vs Dempsey

What did Moore Vs Dempsey conclude?

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1923 Moore Vs Dempsey

12 death sentences for AA dropped due to mob actions of whites

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1933 Trudeau Vs Barnes

What did Trudeau vs Barnes conclude?

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1933 Trudeau vs Barnes

State cases must be exhausted before appealing to the Supreme Court

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1938 Gaines Vs Canada

What did Gaines vs Canada conclude?

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Gaines Vs Canada

Concluded that separate but equal rights must be enforced (i.e. AAs deserve equitable treatment, not below par)

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1944 Smith Vs Allright

What did the **Smith vs Allwright **case conclude?

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Smith Vs Allwright

Outlawed all white primaries

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1954 Brown vs Board of Education

What did **Brown vs Board of Education **conclude?

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Brown vs Board of Education

Overturned separate but equal

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1956 Browder Vs Gayle

What did **Browder vs Gayle **conclude?

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**1956 Browder vs Gayle **

Segregation on buses unconstitutional

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1960 Boyton Vs Virginia

What did **Boyton Vs Virginia **conclude?

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**Boyton Vs Virginia **

Boyton vs Virginia outlawed segregation on interstate travel, sparked Freedom Rides

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1970 Green Vs Connally

What did the Green vs Connally conclude?

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Green Vs Connally

Federal funding of racist organisations would cease

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1971 Griggs Vs Duke Power Company

What did **Griggs vs Duke power company **conclude?

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Griggs vs Duke Power Company

Intelligence tests unconstitutional due to the bad education experienced by discriminated AAs

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1971 Swannn vs Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education

What did Swann vs Charlotte conclude?

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Swann vs Charlotte

Bussing deemed consitutional for integration purposes

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1974 Milliken vs Bradley

What did Milliken vs Bradley conclude?

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Milliken vs Bradley concluded court order bussing should be stopped

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1978 Regents of Uni. California vs Baake

What did Regents vs Baake conclude?

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Regents vs Baake

Regents vs Baake concluded a medical student was being discriminated against based on his race

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1992 Freedmen vs Pitts

What did Freedmen vs Pitts conclude?

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Freedmen vs Pitts concluded that no more could be done to aid desegregation

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Who was the first AA to have an important political career?

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Bruce K Blanche

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Who formed the Afro-American League?

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T Thomas Fortune

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Booker T Washington

What are some of the achievements of Booker T

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Booker T washington

Ran the Tuskegee Institute from 1881 onwards

1895 Atlanta Compromise - accepted white supremacy, believed in accomodationism

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WEB Du Bois

What did WEB Du Bois believe?

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WEB Du Bois

  • Rejected Washington’s accomodationist position established the Niagra movement, which led to the formation of the NAACP in 1909.
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Who was Mary Ovington?

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Executive Director of the NAACP 1910-17, successful.

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Marcus Garvey

Who, what, when, where, why?

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Marcus Garvey

Founded UNIA in 1914, initally inspired by T, but wanted to go further - the repatriation of AAs to Africa

Launched Negro World in 1917

Popular amongst ghetto bruddas

Founded the Black Eagle Star Steamship Line

Declined post-war, talks with KKK led to suspicion - Garvey Must Go in 1922, arrested in 1925

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What did Oscar de Priest do?

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Republican, elected to Congress in 1928, did not support the New Deal, but stood against segregation in Washington

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Who was Walter White?

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Secretary of NAACP in 1930-1955 - good organiser and politically strong

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Name a couple of racist politicians

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Theodore Bilbo and Eugene Talmadge

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Who was Adam Clayton Powell?

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First AA elected the HoR, challenged de facto segregation

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Who was Thurgood Marshall?

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Thurgood Marshall

Lawyer for the NAACP, fought in the Supreme Court; won nearly all cases - notably the Brown case. Appointed as the first AA Justice of the SC by Johnson in 1967

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Who was Earl Warren?

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Chief Justice, 1953 - drove the liberal SC in the 1950s

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Who was Strom Thurmond?

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Opposed the desegregation of the army, created political movement to oppose mainstream parties, not really successful

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Who was Faubus?

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Governor of Arkansas, used federal troops to block Little Rock Nine

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Who was Rosa Parks?

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Rosa Parks was a local NAACP member who refused to give up her seat on a bus - led to her arrest, sparked Montgomery bus boycott

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Martin Luther King

Who was he, what did he do?

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Baptist Minister, heavily involved in Civil Rights Movement - organised march on Washington in 1963, created SCLC in 1957, believed in non-violent methods

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Who was Ralph Abernathy and what did he do?

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Deputy to King, took over after his assassination

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Who was Roy Wilkins?

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Wilkins was the leader of the NAACP up until his death. Moderate, less confrontational than the SCLC

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Who was Ella Baker?

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Ella Baker supported AA voting, part of the NAACP and active member of the SNCC

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What did Robert Kennedy do?

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Forcefully implemented positive SCOTUS rulings, strongly driven to support Civil Rights

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Who was Fred Shuttleworth?

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Fred Shuttleworth formed the 1956 Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights, invited MLK to Birmingham in 1963

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Who was Eugene Bull Connor??

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Birimingham Commissioner of Public Safety, determined to keep segregation, re-elected five times. Set police dogs and water hoses against protestors

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Who was Malcolm X?

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Spokesman of the Nation of Islam, said AA should rise up and take what they deserved over the white devil. Believed whites would always look down on blacks. Expressed his views in Muhammed Speaks, on TV and radio. Became disillusioned with NoI and was assassinated in 1965`

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Who was Elijah Muhammed?

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Elijah Muhammed was the leader of the Nation of Islam in 1934, believed in separate determination for AAs

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Who was Stokley Carmichael?

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Organiser for SNCC, co-wrote Black Power, left SNCC for Black Panthers in 1967. Black Supremacy.

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Huey Newton and Bobby Seale

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Founders of Black Panthers. Worked to improve social and economic conditions in black neighbourhoods

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Clarence Thomas

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Clarence Thomas was appointed by Bush in 1991, a Conservative Republican AA lawyer. Not supportive of CRs

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Jesse Jackson

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Prominent member of the SCLC.

Founded PUSH in 1971, got 1000s of jobs through affirmative action

campaigned twice for presidency, similar to King, highlighted significance of AA vote

People thought him old fashioned

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Who was Rodney King?

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Stopped for Drink Driving in 1991, resisted arrest adn was beaten by police. Caught on camera, seen by whole world. All white jury aquitted policemen in 1992. Riots in LA, 50 killed, 200 injured

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Freedmans Bureau

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Set up by Feds in 1865, helped to support AA in the short term and to provide security in the long term. Helped find AA homes, employment, education, food, medical care etc. Stopped in 1870s

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KKK

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Founded by Nathan Forrest, mainly Southern. Terrorists. Banned in 1870s, reformed in 1915. Infiltrated and split southern democrats

1924 - 5 million

1930 - 30,000

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Ghettos

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Harlem, NY 1880s - first ghetto

Good for unity, bad for segregation

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Niagara Movement

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Founded by Washington, Trotter and Du Bois, campaigned for voting rights and the removal of discrimination. Lacked funds and organisation - belief in equality of education

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NAACP

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Founded 1909

Fought through lawyers

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National Urban League

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Inspired by success of NAACP, campaigned against discrimination in housing and jobs

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Harlem Renaissance

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The Harlem Renaissance featured a group of artists who gained popularity in the 1920s

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Universal Negro Improvement Association

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UNIA campaigned to avoid the melting pot, desiring independence and equality - disliked the NAACP for begging from white govt., thought AAs should take their own freedom

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National Negro Congress

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Founded in 1935, a pressure group to ensure AA received a fair share in the ND, became mostly communist, disbanded in 1947

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Daughters of the American Revolution

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White women racist group who blocked the way to Marian Anderson in Constiution Hall

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Congress of Racial Equality

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CORE, set up in 1942, against northern de facto segregation. Revived by James Farmer, 1961, split over black power, became moderate. Regarded as suspicious during red scare

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How did Phillip A Randolph inspire King?

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Conceptualised the March on Washington

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White Citizens Councils

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Dating from the Brown Case, desired segregation in the South

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Southern Christian Leadership Council

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SCLC - 1957 MLK became president, not many members, but reactive to things like Birmingham

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Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee

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SNCC - Set up by Ella Baker in support of sit ins and other non violent protest

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Nation of Islam

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Founded in 1930, led by Elijah Muhammed

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Black Panthers

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1966, led by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale - not integrationsrts, 10 point programme for better opportunity and education. Militant

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What was WWI?

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A catalyst for Civil Rigths - Harlem Hellfighters and 350,000 others fought with distinction

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What did the Cold War bring?

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Suspicion of Communism, groups suffered greatly

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Vietnam

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Stripped attention from civil rights, led to dispute between LBJ and MLK (before being shot in the head, of course)

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Post civil war economy

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Pretty bad, couldn’t afford to enforce or sustain programmes to improve the standard of living. Reconstruction was cut short

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1920s economy

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Great Depression

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Bad, civil rights fell by the wayside

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WW2 Economy

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Further difficulties, continued decline

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What happened during the Cold War era economically?

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Red Scare and McArthyism led to suspicion

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Reaganomics

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Financial downturn and neoliberal ideals

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1966 Memphis riots

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3 days of riots after carriage collision

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1967 New Orleans Riots

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AA soldiers travelled to vote, 34 killed, 100 injured

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1908 Springfield Riots

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Allegations a black man attempted to rape a white woman. Donnegan was lynched

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1919 Chicago Race Riots

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Black boy in white beach killed. 13 days of rioting.

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Scotsboro Boys

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9AAs accused of raping 2 white women. 4 released, 5 had till wait till 1950

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What happened in 1955?

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Emmet Till wolf whistled a white woman. He was killed.

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Montgomery Bus Boycotts 1955

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Rosa Parks refused to give up seat. Car pools + 1 year boycott. Won.

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Birmingham 1963

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Birmingham 1963 - SCLC protest by MLK, stimulated speech by JFK

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March on Washington

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June 1963, unitied all groups, I had a dream…

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Sit-ins 1960-1

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Greensboro, N Carolina sit ins of 4AAs 1960. Sparked formation of SNCC. By end of 1961, 810 desegregated facilities

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Freedom Rides

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1961, AAs and whites protested against segregation, gained media support

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Chicago Campaign

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Chicago Campaign - MlK and SCLC targetted social issues in north - racists organised - campaign failed

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What happened during the Three Long Summers?

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Riots in East coast cities, mainly LA

(FINISHED) A2 History (4 decks)

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