EXTRA EXAMPLES FOR BA Flashcards

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Federal government intervention 1920s

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  • Warren Harding urged Cabinet members to appoint Black Americans
  • Spoke out against segregation to a crowd of 30,000
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Between 1915-1930 Lynching numbers

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579 black men

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3
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Membership number of KKK

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By 1925, estimated 3-8 million

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Supreme court ruling that upheld segregation

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1896- Plessy v Ferguson

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Boycotts during the 1930s

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  • The Housewives League mounted the “Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work”
  • Boycott stores until hire black workers
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NAACP court cases

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  • 1926 Sweet Trial (set up a legal defence fund to fight segregation)
  • 1936 Murray v Maryland (UoM law school desegregated)
  • 1948 Shelley v Kramer (bans regulations that bar black people from buying houses in any area of the state
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Voting in the South in 1920s

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Fewer than 1% were able to vote

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8
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Media coverage of Little Rock

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over 250 reporters and photographers

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SC that desegregated busing

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1956- Browder v Gayle

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SC that upheld busing

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1971- Swann vs Charlotte- Mecklenburg

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