African Americans And Civil Rights

Question 1

What was the impact of WW2 on AA’s?

Answer 1

• Rise in NAACP membership
• Migration from southern states to the north
• Prepared to give more rights to the AA workers as the US wanted to win the war.
• More activism e.g creation of C.O.R.E (congress of racial equality).

Question 2

Why did Harry Truman embrace civil rights?

Answer 2

To get black votes for democrats and to get AA support in the Cold War.

Question 3

Which president joined the KKK in 1922?

Answer 3

Harry Truman

Question 4

What did Truman do for African Americans?

Answer 4

Set up the ‘president’s committee of civil rights’.

Question 5

What did the President’s committee of civil rights do?

Answer 5

The committee commissioned a report into the lives of minorities in the USA.

Question 6

Which president tried to introduce a civil rights bill to congress however it had failed?

Answer 6

John F. Kennedy

Question 7

Name 5 things John F. Kennedy did for the Civil Rights Movement

Answer 7

1. Forced Alabama to desegregate schools after MLK’s march there.
2. Intervened in helping first ever black student study at Mississippi university.
3. Desegregated railways and bus stations
4. Appointed blacks to important positions in government
5. His brother prosecuted those who tried to stop AA’s from voting.

Question 8

When was MLK assassinated?

Answer 8

1968

Question 9

What was the response to MLK’s assassination?

Answer 9

Violence, which theoretically ended the CRM as a non violent movement.

Question 10

When was the NAACP found?

Answer 10

1954

Question 11

How did the NAACP challenge racist laws?

Answer 11

Taking cases of racial discrimination to the Supreme Court to force legal change

Question 12

What did Marcus Garvey believe?

Answer 12

That blacks integrating with whites could never work

Question 13

What was the name of Garvey’s organisation?

Answer 13

The Universal Improvement Association

Question 14

how many followers / member’s did Garvey’s organisation have by 1920?

Answer 14

4 Million

Question 15

Who did Garvey appeal to?

Answer 15

Young working class AA’s

Question 16

Why was Garvey unpopular with trade unions and the NAACP?

Answer 16

Lack of political strategy and business skills

Question 17

What was the downfall of Marcus Garvey?

Answer 17

Arrested in 1929 for mail Fraud and deported to Jamaica.

Question 18

What happened at the 1968 summer olympics?

Answer 18

Two black athletes gave the black power salute and were banned from the olympics

Question 19

When was the Black Panther group formed?

Answer 19

1966

Question 20

What happened in the early 1970’s regarding the black panthers?

Answer 20

Many moved away from violence and began to see how they could help social standards for black neighbourhoods.

Question 21

When was SNCC founded?

Answer 21

1960

Question 22

What was SNCC?

Answer 22

A student organisation who focused on non violent tactics

Question 23

When was Malcolm X shot and why?

Answer 23

1965 and spoke out against prophet Mohammed (Islam)

Question 24

When was the freedom march from Selma to Montgomery?

Answer 24

1965

Question 25

What did the freedom march from Selma to Montgomery lead to?

Answer 25

The 1965 voting rights act

Question 26

When was Brown vs Topeka

Answer 26

1954 - 55

Question 27

When was the case and death of Emmett Till?

Answer 27

1955

Question 28

What are some reasons that the Civil rights movement were successful?

Answer 28

SCLC and role of religion
Different groups working together
Support from successive presidents 
willingness of sc
climate of the cold war
SNCC AND CORE
Strong leadership - MLK 
Unity between black and white activists