Intolerance- Racism Flashcards
When did the Jim Crow laws start and die out?
1877 and die out in 1950s
What were the Jim Crow laws?
System of laws designed to keep blacks from experiencing any rights. It was a southern idiosyncrasy that would become a national ideology
Where did the Jim Crow segregate?
Restaurants hospitals public transport schools military toilets cemetries
What was the population of the blacks in NY?
150,000 to 330,000
What was the KKK membership in 1920?
100,000 Men
What was the KKK membership in 1925?
5 million
What was the KKK?
It was set up in 1850s and it was revived by the movie birth of nation by woodrow wilson. They were anti- communist, anti- negro, anti- Jew, anti- Catholic, and agianst foreigners
What methods did the KKK use?
Lynching
Beatings
Hate campaigns
Brandings
Why was the KKK popular?
White ppl were scared AA would gain political power
White ppl were scared AA would take away jobs
It played on fears that AA might lead to unemployment of whites adn corruptionadn un-American values
What was Henry Ford’s newspapers called?
The Dearborn Independent
Why weren’t African Americasn able to fight?
Lack of political power
intimidation of violence
social attitudes
Whta lack of political power did AA have?
Black politicians did not get the same postions as whites
Black ppl could not serve as juries
What was the Black Renaissance?
Black culture adn black pride flourished in the cities. Harlem became teh centre of an artistic Renaissance.
Which universities accepted black people?
Howard university
Name three jazz singers
Duke Ellington
Billie Holiday
Bessie Smith
