Growth of the CRM

Question 1

Growth of the CRM topics

Answer 1

Double V campaign, emergence of effective civil rights leaders (Martin Luther King), continuation of prejudice and discrimination, emergence of effective civil rights movements

Question 2

Growth of the CRM introduction

Answer 2

Previously little progress due to fractured civil rights movement, Jim Crow laws and the KKK, growth of movement after 1945

Question 3

Double V campaign K

Answer 3

Over 1 million black soldiers in the US army, executive order 8802 to ban discrimination when employing for army

Question 4

Double V campaign A

Answer 4

Hypocritical for black Americans to fight against racism in Germany when there was still racism at home

Question 5

Double V campaign A+

Answer 5

Impact of the order was limited and there was slow progress after the war

Question 6

Double V campaign E

Answer 6

White Nazi prisoners of war treated better than black Americans (being able to use railway restaurants) motivating them

Question 7

Continuation of prejudice and discrimination K

Answer 7

14 year old Emmett Till killed by two white men for allegedly whistling at a white women, Brown V. Topeka Board of Education 1954 ruled that education could not be segregated

Question 8

Continuation of prejudice and discrimination A

Answer 8

Brutality of killing and other lynchings meant that debate could not be ignored

Question 9

Continuation of prejudice and discrimination A+

Answer 9

Ruling was poorly written and Southern states were non-compliant - some schools segregated in 1972

Question 10

Continuation of prejudice and discrimination E

Answer 10

Lynchings had been common but the backlash had never been so large - with other 1 million black soldiers stationed in Britain or France in WW2, they realised that these things did not happen there

Question 11

Effective civil rights organisations K

Answer 11

NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People) for peaceful protests and legal action (Brown V. Topeka), SNCC (Student National Coordinating Committee) for direct action (freedom rides 13 members morales busses from north to south and met with violence)

Question 12

Effective civil rights organisations A

Answer 12

Abuse suffered generated sympathy and publicity

Question 13

Effective civil rights organisations A+

Answer 13

Most movements such as the SNCC only campaigned in the south, not the north

Question 14

Effective civil rights organisations E

Answer 14

Biggest recruiter for civil rights organisations was WW2 with 400,000 joining NAACP

Question 15

MLK and other effective leaders K

Answer 15

MLK helped run Montgomery bus boycott before travelling across America (I have a dream), Stokely Carmichael advocated violence if necessary, social change and black power

Question 16

MLK and other effective leaders A

Answer 16

MLK’s speeches helped win the moral high ground, draw attention and gain favour from the press

Question 17

MLK and other effective leaders A+

Answer 17

Violence led to a loss of support for the CRM from the press

Question 18

MLK and other effective leaders E

Answer 18

WW2 more effective in changing the minds of government - President Truman stated his stomach ‘turned over when I learned that Negro soldiers, just back from overseas were being dumped out of army trucks in Missouri and beaten’