Inequality In 50's And 60's Flashcards
What was the ‘Harlem Renaissance’ and when did America see this
The development of the black awareness and culture seen in the 1930s
What did the 1920s and 1930s see in terms of racism
Saw scientific racism and bogus theories about race types and inferior races
What Type of music and black dance became internationally popular
The Charleston and jazz music
What were the ‘new Negroes’
The blacks who were starting to realise the great possibilities within themselves
What was the NAACP and when was it set up
The National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People set up in 1911
How many members did the NAACP have in 1945
450,000 members
What did The NAACP do during the 1930s
It conducted a campaign against lynchings
Who was Charles Houston and what did he do
A black NAACP lawyer who trained and elite team of black lawyers who challenged segregation laws in the courts
What particular right did The NAACP black lawyers win
The right to postgraduate education and the right to sit on juries
What happened during the Second World War in terms of blacks
Black activism grew
Who was James Farmer and what did he do
A black Christian socialist who founded the CORE
What was the CORE and what did it do
The Congress of Racial Equality which organised sit-ins at segregated restaurants and insisted its members sit in white seats on interstate buses
Was there increased racism during the war
Yes
When was the Fair Employment Practices law set up and what did it do
Set up in 1941 and abolished discrimination against black workers in defence industries, which employed 2 million blacks by the end of the war.
What were white workers attitudes towards black after 1941
They resented what they saw as black people taking their jobs and moving into their neighbourhoods
What did whites do because of their views of blacks
They called strikes, picketed black housing project and attacked black workers
When were the race riots across America and where notably were they
1943
Notably in Detroit
How many black people had served in the US Army and fought against Nazi racism and oppression during the war
More than 1 million
What did blacks think after they served in the war
That they had and equality-1 ex-corporal said; I went into the army and nigger, I’m coming out a man
What was the principal behind the Jim Crow Laws
Separate but equal
How kept the Jim Crow laws underpinned in the law
The Supreme Court
What did most returning black soldiers find themselves being and being called
Found themselves unemployed and called ‘boy’
What happened to black soldiers in the southern states of the USA who questioned themselves in society
They were beaten and even murdered
What kind of views did Pres Harry S.Truman 1945 to 53 hold
Racist views in Private
