Battle For Civil Rights Up To '41 Flashcards
Legal impediments KU
The Jim Crow laws were unwritten laws that kept black and white people separate
This led to the separate but equal policy which meant black and white people had to use separate facilities and segregation was legal as long as it was equal. However facilities were often not equal and black people had far worse quality facilities than white people.
Some separated facilities would be: busses
Water fountains
Restaurant entrances and coffee pots
Legal impediments Analysis
A+ Americans were denied their 14th amendment rights and were stopped from properly integrating into society and also made sure black people couldn’t easily vote
A- dispite being segregated they still had access to some civil rights and the KKK caused more fear and physical violence
Devisions in the black community KU
Booker T. Washington
-wanted black children to have an education and believed it was the key to advancement
-Established the Tuskanee institute which educated black children and was quite successful
W.E Du Bois
-First black person to get a harvard degree
-demanded full civil rights for black people and an end to segregation
-believed the key to advancement was through legal action
Marcus Garvey
-believed black pride and culture should be celebrated
-argued racism was too ingrained in US culture and black people should liberate themselves by moving back to Africa
Devisions in the Black Community Analysis
A+ the devisions caused little progress to be made which caused black people to lose morale
A- still made a little progress individually and brought awareness to the issue of civil rights
Popular Prejudice KU
Between 1910 and 1980 over 6 million black people moved from the south to the north
The black population in the south went from 89% to 53%
This caused increased racial tension in the north as it increased competition for housing and jobs. As a result of the higher demand for housing landlords raised rent which caused a lot of backlash towards the black community as white people blamed them.
Getting housing was also difficult for black people because white people didn’t want them to live in their areas limiting their access to nice neighbourhoods.
Black people also found it difficult to get jobs because of prejudiced employers and Trade Unions
Popular Prejudice Analysis
A+ the north was seen as a safer space but due to competition for jobs and housing there was tension between black and white people causing them to lose support in the north
A- life was still a lot better in the north as there wasn’t as much threat of violence and the discrimination they faced there wasn’t as much of an obstacle as the legal impediments
Lack of political influence KU
To prevent black people from voting southern states imposed a wide array of voting restrictions such as tax polls which most black people couldn’t meet and literacy tests which most black people didn’t have the education to pass.
However black Americans did have some political influence when president Roosevelt created an unofficial group of black advisors in Washington which meant they could influence the presidents desicions
Lack of political influence analysis
A+ black people couldn’t vote in people who would help them achieve civil rights and would support their fight for equality
A- they did have some influence when there were presidents sympathetic to their cause
KKK KU
Believed Black people were inferior to white people and should not be treated equally
Wanted to stop former slaves getting education, economic advancement, voting rights and the right to bear arms
Declared a terrorist organisation in the 1870s and many members had prosecutions against them which caused a blow to their membership
They used intimidation tactics like burning crosses, marching through neighbourhoods, threatening people and even going as far as kidnapping, whipping and lynching
Had the support of influential people including president coolidge
KKK Analysis
A+ terrified both Black people and any supporters of black people into doing nothing to advance themselves out of fear of being attacked
A- saw many declines in leadership due to rape and murder scandals as well as the media pressurising the government to stop the KKK showing there was people who worked against them
Context (civil rights ‘41)
In 1865 the American civil war was won by the North, slavery was ended and black people were granted full constitutional rights.
Dispite this life still remained difficult for black people.
