Political opposition to AA Flashcards
1
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1913-21
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Woodrow Wilson
- Let Jim Crow laws flourish
-Supported KKK
-Encouraged segregation of federal departments
2
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1933-1945
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
- New Deal - 30% of AA on relief (their application for benefits was treated without discrimination)
- Denounced lynching but wouldn’t push for anti-lynching legislation in case he lost Southern support
3
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1945-1953
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Harry Truman
-Presidents Commission of Civil Rights in 1946
- 1948 Executive order desegregating the army and navy
- Supported anti-lynching campaigns
4
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1953-1961
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
-1957 Little Rock Nine (had to intervene)
- Responded to civil rights instead of leading in it
-Believed in local not federal change
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1961-1963
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