Paper 1: Civil Rights Flashcards
Federal Loyalty Boards 1947
- Truman order on removing government employees if there was reasonable ground to their disloyalty
- 3000 were forced to resign or fired while 3 million were investigated
Hollywood Ten 1947
- Spread Propaganda to others through movies
- Dalton Trumbo -Won Oscars: Roman Holiday and Brave One
- Charlie Chaplin - never came back
Alger Hiss Case 1948
- Important adviser towards Roosevelt
- Sent to prison for 5 years, Leaking information to the SU
- Impact Communist Spies are everywhere
Rosenberg Case 1950
- Rosenbergs were claimed to leak atomic bomb leaks
- Little evidence and weak but it is true / Executed 19 June 1953
Impact Of FBI and HUAC
-American in a Communist conspiracy
-McCarran Internal Security Act in 1950, all communist groups must register
Topic McCarran Internal Security Act strengthened 1952
-No US passport for communism / Not allowed in many jobs
-Anyone sus of subversion could be put in detention camp without trial
McCarthy 1950-1954
- Calling Senator Tydings un-American / was not re-elected later that year
- Would lose their seats, Chairman promotion, the investigation into departments
Methods of McCarthy
- Bullying tactics and fabricated evidence
- Attack people saying they’re soft on communism
- Army George Marshall ‘Communist drive for world domination
Downfall of McCarthy
- Extremist and also televised trials / Ed Murrow See it now /Improper conduct 67 votes to 22
- Ease tension and nothing actual happen
Voting
- Literacy /Poll tax /Using violence
- Lynching and then all-white jury no convictions
Plessy VS Ferguson 1896
- Separate but equal
- Judge Bias against the Civil Rights Movement
Brown VS Topeka 1954
-Spending is 4 times more on a white student than a black student
-Linda Brown - Distance was closer / Unanimous decision / Unconstitutional and that desegregation should have’ with deliberate speed’ and make a ‘prompt and reasonable start’
Topic Impact of B vs T
-AA teachers were fired / White flight
-US system is pushing for change / Awareness to the movement / Gave the hope
KKK 1920s to 1956 MMM
- WCC starts and goes against integration / Many of them joined the KKK
- Began using bombs / Montgomery Bus Boycott
Emmett Till 1956
-Open casket / Photographers took photos of this horror
-Found not guilty, all-white jury, they later admitted to this but they could not be tried again
Topic Impact of ET
-Northerners can see the racial issues in the South
-Active role starts, Catalyst for change later
Montgomery Bus Boycott
-Rosa Parks 1 Dec 1955 / Arrested her / Boycott / 70 percent were AA / 90 percent did not show up
- Realised there was a new method for change
Topic Demands of MBB 1955
- Respect / Black Drivers for Black Routes / Don’t leave colored sections
-381 days of boycott, hard hit, more demands for desegregation
Move to integration 1955
- Browder vs Gayle / NAACP / Violation of the 14th Amendment (Equal Protection)
- Arresting them for ‘Disrupting Lawful Business / Gave publicity / Ruling says desegregation should happen
- Backlash from KKK and only desegregation happened in a few areas
1957 Civil Rights Act
Topic Move to integration 1955
- Browder vs Gayle / NAACP / Violation of the 14th Amendment (Equal Protection)
- Arresting them for ‘Disrupting Lawful Business / Gave publicity / Ruling says desegregation should happen
-Backlash from KKK and only desegregation happened in a few areas
Topic 1957 Civil Rights Act
- US commission on Civil Rights - Investigations / Federal courts prosecuting states
- First time in 82 years / 3 percent increase in voting registration / Acknowledgement
Little Rock 9 1957
- Governor Faubus - on tv / ordered state troops / surrounded and pushed out of the school / Hazel Brown screamed at one of them -> become a peace activist as she received a lot of hate
- Legal dispute and fought / Eisenhower sent 1200 troops / went to class / 72 percent against integration
- Showed that the supreme court winning will not do anything / Education suffered and many people insulted them
- caused civil rights bill
Sit-Ins 1960 - 1963
- 4 students to 70,000 students / Spat and hit but they never acted against it / Jail, not bait / Overcrowded jails
- Data Trained to be visible to the media / Never respond with violence
Topic Sit-Ins more
- Eisenhower said ‘deeply sympathetic with the efforts of any group to enjoy the rights of equality that they are guaranteed by the constitution
- Numbers were large / Attracted huge publicity / Confrontational /White protestors / Desegregation / student protest
Freedom Riders 1960
- Specific intention to create a crisis / Anniston - KKK William Chappell
- Kennedy threatened to send in a US marshal to enforce desegregation - end 1961 integration occurred
Meredith Case 1961
- Felony Offense - Voter registration -Kennedy intervened - Ordered those ‘obstructing the law’ to ‘desist’- 2000 troops
- Riot as 2 people died 300 injured