Obstacles to Black Civil Rights Flashcards
When and by who was the KKK re-founded?
1915, by William J Simmons
_% of black people could vote by 1900.
3
What is wrong in this sentence:
During the 1880s, the Southern state legislatures followed the successful 1879 example of Mississippi and introduced income and literacy qualifications for voting, which penalised black people more than whites. Illiterate whites were often allowed to vote through the notorious father clause, by which a man could vote if it were proved that an ancestor had voted before the Civil War.
1890s not 1880s,
1890 not 1879,
Grandfather clause, not father clause.
How many blacks migrated north during The
Great War?
400,000 people
Northern ghettos were __% black.
90
What is wrong:
Homer Plekky challenged
segregation in 1892, bringing the case to the Supreme Court who decreed that “Laws permitting, and even requiring, the separation of races, in places where they are liable to be brought into contact, would be considered a reasonable response to said contact, despite the implied inferiority to one race through the following action.”
Plessy not Plekky,
The Supreme Court decided that such segregation does not imply the inferiority of one race.
Who infamously said: “Segregation is not humiliating, but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen”?
President Woodrow Wilson
W.E.B De Bois was the first _________
Black man to graduate from Harvard.
What was the long term impact of Marcus Garvey’s beliefs?
The Black Power Movement.
A Philip Randolph achieved the desegregation of the armed forces via _________
Threatening a mass march on Washington
What is wrong:
Two important influences resulted in the reformation of the KKK: the book The Clansmen by Thomas Dixon and the film “Forging of a Nation” directed by F.W. Griffin.
Birth not Forging
D.W Griffith
The black voting population of Alabama decreased from __,000 to _______ by 1902.
18
3,000
Which Amendement gave black people the right to vote?
The 15th
In 1917, how many people died during a race riot at a defense plant in St Louis?
40 blacks and 9 whites
When was the Seperate but Equal decision decreed?
1896
