Civil Rights Flashcards
What treatment did black Americans face?
Across the USA, black Americans faced negative treatment such as radical segrgation and discrimation. Jim Crows laws enforced segregation in public parks, cinemas, restaurants, schools, universities and on public transport.
What were attitiudes like in the ‘Deep South’?
The Deep South is those states in the USA’s south-east with a history of slavery and who formed the confederacy during the US civil war. Many people in these states held very traditional and conservative views. These statea are Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Florida.
Why do many laws vary between states?
The US has a federal system of government. This means while the constitution gives federal government (President, Houses of Congress and the Supreme Court) some powers, it also gives states the right to pass many of their own laws.
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
A group who persicuted Jews, Catholics, communists, and anyone who wasn’t white, especially African Americans.
