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Edexcel AS/A Level History Route F: Searching for Rights and Freedoms in the 20th Century > American History: 1.2 Key Dates of Events and Statistics > Flashcards

American History: 1.2 Key Dates of Events and Statistics Flashcards

1
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Congress passed 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery

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31 January 1865

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14th Amendment passed which made all people born or naturalised in the USA (inc. those who had been slaves) US Citizens

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9 July 1868

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15th Amendment passed declaring that all US citizens had the same voting rights

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3 February 1870

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Year when Fannie Lou Hamer went to vote in Ruleville, Mississippi and was sacked from her job and she was told that people weren’t “ready” for her to do this

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1962

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Year when black Americans were supposedly free and equal

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1870

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Year when Wilson introduced segregation in government offices and the White House

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1913

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Year when there was about 25 anti-black race riots, often set off by police injustice and hundreds were killed

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1919

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By which year did the South have a large number of Jim Crow Laws?

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1917

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By ? the number of black Americans registered to vote had dropped considerably

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1917

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Number of black voters in Louisiana

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Fell from 130,334 in 1896 to 1,342 in 1904

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11
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Plessy vs Ferguson

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1896

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12
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Lynchings of 65 white men and 579 black men

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Between 1915 and 1930

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13
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Emmett Till lynched

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1955

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14
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KKK revived

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1915

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15
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Estimate of membership of KKK by 1925

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Between 3 and 8 million

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16
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How many segregated people did Harding speak to at the Uni of Alabama about the evils of segregation?

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30,000

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17
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Who were committed to Laissez-Faire?

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Harding and Coolidge

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18
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Great Migration

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1917-32

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By ? almost 40% of African Americans in the North were living in Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus Ohio

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1920

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Population of New York in 1910, 1920 and 1930

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91,709
152,467
327,706

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Population of Detroit in 1910, 1920 and 1930

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5,741
40,838
120,066

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Population of Chicago in 1910, 1920 and 1930

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44,103
109,458
233,903

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23
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Great Depression

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1929-39

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During the 19…s black voters shifted from mainly voting republican (who abolished slavery) to voting democrat (New Deal)

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1930s

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NAACP established

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1910

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26
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NAACP turned down the case of 9 young black men framed for raping 2 white girls on a train near Scottsboro, Alabama

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1931

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In the early 19…s, Birmingham, Alabama had 6 black American members of the NAACP and 3,000 + black American communists

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1930s

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28
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Another depression hit the USA in

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1937

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29
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Resettlement Administration set up by Executive Order 7027 in

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May 1935

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30
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The Resettlement Administration still only helped

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3,400 of 200,000+ farmers

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31
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In ….. around 2 million people signed a petition for Federal Aid to move to Africa

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1939

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32
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In September ? WW2 broke out in Europe

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1939

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33
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The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour on

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7 December 1941

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34
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USA’s first conscription bill pushed through Congress

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1940

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35
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A. Philip Randolph threatened a 100,000 strong all-black march on Washington unless Roosevelt banned discrimination in the army and in defence factories

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May 1941

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36
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Summer of 1942 - 3% of defence workers black

1944 - rose to …

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8%

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37
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What year saw outbreaks of racist violence and strikes lead by white people over having to work with blacks for the war effort?

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1943

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38
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In 19…, Truman set up the President’s Committee on Civil Rights, which called for equal opportunities in work and housing

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1946

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In 19…, Truman issued Executive Orders desegregating the military and all work done by businesses for the government

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1948

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40
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UN set up

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1945

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41
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Direct Action

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1917-55

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42
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NAACP membership went from 9,000 in 1917 to 90,000 in 1919 and 600,000 in …

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1946

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43
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Some separatists such as Marcus Garvey in the early 19…s suggested that the answer was to do what white racists told them to do - go back to Africa

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Early 1920s

44
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Thurgood Marshall

A

1908-93

45
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Marshall became the NAACP’s chief legal counsel in …

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1940

46
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During the 1940s and 50s, Marshall took 32 segregation cases to the Supreme Court and won ? of them

A

29

47
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Sweet Trial

A

1926

48
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Murray vs Maryland

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1936

49
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Gaines vs Canada

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1938

50
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Morgan vs Virginia

A

1946

51
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Shelley vs Kraemer

A

1948

52
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Sweatt vs Painter and McLaurin Vs Oklahoma

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1950

53
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Brown Vs Board of Education of Topeka

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1954

54
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CORE set up

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1942

55
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Fellowship of Reconciliation founded

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1914

56
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Montgomery Bus Boycott

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1955

57
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Rosa Parks

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1 Dec 1955

58
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Supreme Court ruled bus segregation as unconstitutional

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13 Nov. 1956

59
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King set up the SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)

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1957

60
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Little Rock integrated buses

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1956

61
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Little Rock,Arkansas

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1957

62
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Greensboro sit-in

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1 Feb. 1960

63
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SNCC set up (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)

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15 April 1960

64
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Freedom Rides

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1961

65
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Birmingham

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1963 (campaign began 3 April)

66
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After Birmingham, 42% of people said that race was the USA’s most pressing problem. How many had said this in 1962?

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Only 4%

67
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March on Washington

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August 1963

68
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Freedom Summer

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1964

69
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About 17,000 blacks tried to register to vote in 1964. Only ? were accepted

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1,600

70
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Malcolm X

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1925-65

71
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Stokely Carmichael set up the Lowndes County Freedom Organisation

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1965

72
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Black power clenched fist symbol used by medalists in which Olympics?

A

Mexico 1968

73
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Major riots in NY, Chicago and Philadelphia

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1964

74
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The Northern Crusades

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1966

75
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MLK assassinated

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4 April 1968

76
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Segregation of interstate buses banned all over the USA

A

25 Nov. 1955

77
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Autherine Lucy - first black student to go to the Uni of Mississippi - white riots so bad she got expelled

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Feb. - March 1956

78
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102 Southern Congressmen signed the Southern Manifesto condemning Brown vs Board of Education

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12 March 1956

79
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James Meredith integrates the University of Mississippi- faced rioting and needed the help of 3,000 federal troops

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30 Sep. 1962

80
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The Governor of Alabama stops 2 black students desegregating the university - Kennedy takes over state troops to make it happen

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11 June 1963

81
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Medgar Evers (Leader of Mississippi NAACP) shot

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12 June 1963

82
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March on Washington

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28 Aug. 1963

83
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People @March on Washington

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Est. 200,000 to 500,000

84
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Black Church Sunday School (in Birmingham) bombed - 4 girls killed

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15 Sept. 1963

85
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Civil Rights Act passed banning discrimination in voting, public services and work

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2 July 1964

86
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MLK awarded Nobel Peace Prize

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10 Dec. 1964

87
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Civil Rights voter registration campaign in Selma, Montgomery - mass arrests, campaigner shot

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2 July 1964

88
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Selma to Montgomery March (in response to the shooting) - more arrests, more violence, federal troop escort ends the march

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7 March 1965

89
Q

Civil Rights Act sets up Civil Rights Commission and gives federal justice department more rights to supervise voter registration

A

29 Aug. 1957

90
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Civil Rights Act -
Now crime to obstruct federal orders e.g. school desegregation by threat or force

Authorises federal “referees” for voting

A

6 May 1960

91
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Kennedy’s Executive Order 1106 - bans discrimination in allocation of federal housing

A

20 Nov. 1962

92
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Civil Rights Act bans discrimination for sex or race in hiring, firing and promoting

Equal Opportunities Commission set up to enforce this

A

2 July 1964

93
Q

Voting Rights Act passed banning attempts to stop people voting because of race

Provisions put in place for 5 years

The enforcement provisions have to be reconfirmed with extensions in 1970, 1975, 1982 and 2007

A

6 Aug. 1965

94
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Emergency School Aid Act - funds schools that are desegregating or struggling to desegregate

Follow up Act 2 years later

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21 May 1970

95
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Swann vs Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education- upholds policy of busing children out of poor areas to desegregated schools

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20 April 1971

96
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Education Amendments Act - restricts busing by giving more money to inner-city schools for improvements

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23 June 1972

97
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97% of black students remained in segregated schools

A

1968

98
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In ?, 58% of blacks were still in segregated schools in Southern states

A

1968

99
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Between 1965 and 66, a further ? black people registered to vote

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230,000

100
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The number of black voters in the US jumped from 4 million in ? to 6 million in ?

A

1960

1965

101
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In ?, there was sit-ins in 200 cities which resulted in 161 desegregated restaurants and canteens

A

1963

102
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During the 19…s and ….s, black unemployment was twice the national average

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1950s and 60s

103
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? out of the 31 states with the highest proportion of black people introduced Fair Employment Practice Laws

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25

104
Q

Unemployment of blacks was still 7% in ?

A

1968

105
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The average income of a black person was 61% of the income of a white person in ?

A

1968

106
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In ?, 80% of the public said they supported desegregation of education

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1964

107
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In ? only 50% of the public said they supported equal rights in housing

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1964

Edexcel AS/A Level History Route F: Searching for Rights and Freedoms in the 20th Century (2 decks)

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