TERMS/PEOPLE/EVENTS TO KNOW Flashcards
W.E.B. Du Bois “Returning Soldiers”
African-Americans must continue fighting for democracy and equality after returning home from war
Great Migration
- African-Americans migrate from south to north to escape unemployment, discrimination and poverty
- whites resist, race riots bcuz no jobs
“New Negro” Movement
- generation after Emancipation
- racial pride
Marcus Garvey/UNIA
- universal negro improvement association
- economic empowerment
- black nationalism
Shut the Door
anglo-saxon superiority vs. we’re all immigrants asshole
Committee on Public Information
- George Creel
- masculinity, chivalry, patriotism
- propaganda for war effort
National Origins Act
-only allows 2% of the number of immigrants from each country
18th Amendement
prohibition
19th Amendement
women’s suffrage
Hooverville
shanty towns
New Deal: relief, recovery, reform
- relief: immediate, halt economic decline (Bank Holiday)
- recovery: temporary, restart flow of consumer demand (Agricultural Adjustment Act)
- reform: permanent, avoid future disasters (Federal Deposit Insurance Corp)
Democratic Coalition
- white southerners
- farmers
- industrial workers
- african-americans
A. Philip Randolph
- 1941 march on washington for jobs and freedom
- four freedoms/jim crow
Executive Order 8802
-outlaw discriminatory hiring in defense plants but army segregated
Executive Order 9066
remove Japanese from west coast, internment camps