Reasons For The Growth Of The CRM

Question 1

Intro background

Answer 1

1. Black people faces de- jute segregation in the southern states underpinned by the Jim crow laws and the denial of their constitutional right to vote
2. Those who had moved to the north during the ‘great migration’ suffered de-facto segregation and faced deep rooted social and economic discrimination

Question 2

Factors in this essay

Answer 2

1. Double V and WW2 ( most important )
2. Continuation of discrimination
3. Formation of effective black organisations
4. Emerge of effective black leader
5. Martin Luther King

Question 3

Double V and WW2

Answer 3

1. The NAACP ( National association of advancement of coloured people) membership increased from 50,000 to 45,000 during WW2
2. Over a million black people served in the armed forces in WW2 giving black soldiers a glimpse of life in forge in lands which were not discriminatory
   A - inspired black peopke
   A+ - despite this was not the reality of life in America
   Ev - most important as historian DR Stephen tucked believed WW2 was “absolutely key”

Question 4

Continuation of discrimination

Answer 4

1. Chicagos black population rose from 250,000 in 1940 to half a million in 1950
2. The continuation of Jim crown laws gave burgeoning campaign focus e.g the actions of Rosa parks in refusing to give up her seat in a segregated bus to a white man
   A - lead to greater publicity
   A+ - made blacks look irresponsible and immature
   Ev - Hugh Brogan stated “ wartime service made black people more conscious of their strength and the need for united action”

Question 5

Formation of effective black organisations

Answer 5

1. NAACP which focused on legally challenging the barriers to black peoples equality the group majorly targeted the Supreme Court focussing on the fight against segregated education
2. Southern Christian leadership conference ( SCLC) and they held a march outside the Lincoln memorial in 1957 which was easy to organise and many people joined to fight for black peoples civil rights the group also stuck to non violent tactics
   A - loads of publicity
   A+ - could easily be ignored by gov ( non violent)
   Ev -gov aiding demobilised soldiers a college education ensuring black poeple were educated on civil rights

Question 6

Emerge of effective black leaders

Answer 6

1. A Phillip Randolph was the first black leader to see and use the potential of black workers within a trade union context also increasing black confidence and civil rights militancy
2. MLK who was deceived as an affective spin doctor who manipulated the media to great effect and chose his opponents carefully
   A - brought attention to campaign and he was very influential
   A + - his publicity in the north was limited he was strongly focussed in south
   Ev - president Truman states how his stomach “ turned over when I learned that negro soldiers, just back from overseas were being dumped out of army trucks in Missouri and beaten”

Question 7

MLK

Answer 7

Point and evaluation from emerge of effective black leader

And…

1. MLK chose to protest in one of the most racist towns in the southern states Birmingham Alabama in 1963

• don’t write a leader paragraph and Martin Luther king just one of them *