Social Flashcards
Plessy v Fergusson
Year?
What did it do?
SBE?
Seperation did not imply…
1896
Constitutionalised jim crow laws
Seperate but equal
Seperation did not imply inferior treatment of people of different races
Jim crow laws
Years?
Result of?
What did it do?
1877- 1964
Result of Hayes-Tilden compromise
- Seperate hospitals, prisons, schools, churches
- Codes of behaviour regulating social and sexual relations between members of different races
KKK
Formed in?
What did they do
Common method
Targeted
1871 membership
Ku Klux Klan
Formed in 1865 in Tennessee
Intimidated AA using violence and murder
Lynchings
Attacked former enslaved people such as the Freedmen’s Bureau
40k Tenessee
500k South
KKK revival
when?
why?
membership in 1924?
Decline?
1915
The birth of a nation
6 million- stronger in north than in 1871
Involvement of a Grand Wizard bc of raping and murdering a women, Klan mostly defunct by 1944
Lynching
How many?
1885-1917= 2.7k
CRA main one
when
President
Who would hear what
Ended what
1964
Lyndon Johnson
Federal courts would hear cases involving discrimination in public facilities- prevented local juries deciding on discrimination
ended jim crow laws
13th Am
When
President
What
How many
But
1865
Lincoln
Emancipated slaves- could move away from plantations and farms
4 million
No resources and hostility
14th Am
When
President
What
1868
Andrew Johnson
Gave citizenship to all people born or naturalised in the US
= citizenship to emancipated slaves
provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws,”
Organisations effective
Mow MoB
When
Who
Impact
SCLC + SNCC+ CORE: March on Washington 1963 & Birmingham 1963 = huge success -> gained maximum publicity from media forcing Kennedy to act
Organisations not effective
Black Panthers + Nation of Islam + SNCC post-65
Hindered progress due to their militant approach causing white backlash
