Chp 1, 2 - Life for Black Americans by 1945 Flashcards
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
Lincoln declared the freedom of all slaves in 1862.
What were amendments 13, 14, 15 to do with?
Civil rights for slaves.
Who was Sarah Patton Boyle and what did she mean by ‘segregation of the heart’?
She was a white woman raised in the south by Black maids. She meant that she is taught to talk down to B. Americans and learned to see them as unequal.
What were Jim Crow laws?
Legal segregation of education, healthcare, transport e.c.t
What measures were put in to try and prevent B. People from voting?
Grandfather clause where you could only vote if your grandfather could.
Literacy Tests which was unfair and tedious.
Who were the Ku Klux Klan and what were some significant activities they did?
A white supremacy group who lynched 115 in 1900. 1915 film called ,Birth of a Nation, was a box office hit.
What was the Plessy V Ferguson 1896 argument and it’s outcome?
Plessy argued seg. was illegal as it went against 14thA. The Supreme Court decided it was legal if facilities were equal e.g (Seperate but Equal)
What was the position of Black Americans in 1945? PESC.
Economic- 6% of white men unemployed to 10% of Black men. 500,000 had migrated from south and by 1950 1/3 lived in North to 1/4 in 1940.
Political - 1945- 16N states had 6-13% B. Pop.-had power to decide outcome of elections. In south only 15% of b.pop could vote.
Social- Segregation taking place. Housing worse.
Who was William Haist?
A black federal judge appointed in 1949.
What effect did WW2 have on Black Soldiers and people?
Over 1.2 mil b.soldiers in WW2. They were treated as hero’s in UK and France but at home badly. We’re fighting a contradicting race war as at home were fighting KKK, seg. and Hitler and Nazis in WW2. Were sent worse part of battlefield and faced seg. Of army- different canteens, transported on different vehicles and given worse equipment.
