Religion And Race Flashcards
When was the KKK formed
1866
How many black people lived in America in 1910?
10 million
When was the UNIA formed?
1914
NAACP- 90,000 people
UNIA first headquarters in NYC
1919
Bible Belt believed only creationism should be taught in school
1924-1925
The monkey trial
Trial finished on 10 July 1925
Bible belt
An area of southern America, where Christian belief is strong
Fundamentalist
Believes the Bible word for word
Creationism
Belief, living species were created by God
Jim Crow law
Discriminated against black Americans in the southern states
Segregation
Separate but equal
Describe Natives Americans and their life throughout America in the 1920s
Forced to live like white people made to live on reservations, forced to cut their hair and banned from wearing face paint
Forced to go to special boarding schools and taught only Christianity
1924 they were granted US citizenship they could not vote. Many of them fought during World War I.
1928 the Meriam report
Commended that the Christianity only curriculum should be dropped and native Americans should be taught skills in education for a life of their own
Describe the effect of the Jim Crow laws
The law segregated, black Americans and all public places, schools, parks, hospitals, restaurants, swimming, pools, and libraries
Black and white in different neighbourhoods, no marriage between black and white people
Christian fundamentalists
Believed the bible word for word
Bible Belt
Area of USA that is very religious with fundamentalist preachers
Revivalists
Didn’t like new culture in cities
Name some Bible Belt states
Alabama Kentucky Tennessee
Creationism vs evolution in Bible Belt states
Darwin theory of evolution, contradicted the formed beliefs that the world was created in seven days by god
Butler act , what and when
1924 Tennessee passed butler act banning teaching of Darwin’s theory of evolution
Effects of the Monkey trial
Trial was broadcasted on the radio and revived large national media attention despite John scopes still being found guilty Clarence darrow(johns lawyer) successfully damaged fundamentalist case
Reservation
Land set apart for the use of native Americans
The meriam report
1928
Stated that the boarding school for Native American children were poorly funded and understaffed
The report commended that the curriculum which taught only European American cultural value should be dropped
Strange fruit
Written by a teacher in 1937, it protested against American racism, partially the lynching of African-Americans. The song was blacklisted for being too controversial.
Why were the Jim Crow laws introduced
They introduced laws to control, freedom, white Americans in the south with frighten that black Americans might take over the gym. Crow law meant that black Americans suffered, racial discrimination and economic inequality.
