Obstacles to civil rights essay

Question 1

Obstacles to civil rights topics

Answer 1

KKK, legal impediments, lack of vote, lack of political influence

Question 2

Obstacles to civil rights introduction

Answer 2

US constitution gave all the right to vote - 14th for full citizenship and 15th right to vote but they were still frequently denied this in southern states

Question 3

KKK K

Answer 3

Devoted to enforcing white supremacy and reformed in 1915 with 5 million members by 1925, use of violence with 416 lynched from 1918 to 1927 with only 4 sentenced

Question 4

KKK A

Answer 4

Use of violence and lack of consequences for that violence allowed them to silence opposition

Question 5

KKK A+

Answer 5

Series of scandals with race and murder ‘discredited’ them

Question 6

KKK E

Answer 6

Fell to 1 million members by 1929 and kept on falling but civil rights still did not progress and Jim Crow Laws still in place

Question 7

Legal impediments and Jim Crow Laws A+

Answer 7

Jim Crow Laws only active in South

Question 7

Legal impediments and Jim Crow Laws K

Answer 7

Alabama - white nurses could not treat black men, 1892 Homer Plessy went to Supreme Court to argue against Jim Crow Laws and lost resulting in ‘separate but equal’

Question 8

Legal impediments and Jim Crow Laws A

Answer 8

De jure segregation enforced in law made to hard to fight against

Question 9

Legal impediments and Jim Crow Laws E

Answer 9

More important as Jim Crow Laws (in Florida and white women and a black man could not marry) caused emigration north in the first place, hardening attitudes there as well as in the south

Question 10

Lack of political influence K

Answer 10

Only 3% of black Americans could vote in Southern states by 1915 due to impossible qualifications, civil rights act 1885 made unconstitutional by federal government as it took away the rights of states

Question 11

Lack of political influence A

Answer 11

As black people could not vote or serve in juries it was easy to pass more laws against them

Question 12

Lack of political influence A+

Answer 12

Restrictions only applied in the south, not the north

Question 13

Lack of political influence E

Answer 13

Not all elected were racist - Hiram Rhodes Revels elected as senator for Mississippi in 1870 and campaigned for civil rights

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Nature of CRM K

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W. E. B. Du Bois in 1909 founded NAACP (National Association for the Improvement of Coloured Peoples) for civil rights and desegregation with peaceful protest, Marcus Garvey in 1914 founded UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement Association) for black nationalism and a return to Africa

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Nature of CRM A

Answer 15

NAACP ran a successful campaign against lynching, CRM could have some successes even when fragmented

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Nature of CRM A+

Answer 16

NAACP failed to attract a large backing among ordinary black Americans

Question 17

Nature of CRM E

Answer 17

A Philip Randolph in 1941 organised a march on Washington to end discrimination in the armed forces and government, which President Roosevelt gave into