The Black Experience in the 1920s

Question 1

Many states passe laws for segregation of blacks in where?

Answer 1

schools, parks, hospitals and other public areas.

Question 2

Where in America was it worst in the context of discrimination against blacks?

Answer 2

Southern state

Question 3

How did the Black Renaissance help?

Answer 3

Expressed the social and economic grievance of black and made whites aware of the black experience of rootlessness and alienation

Question 4

What does the NAACP stand for?

Answer 4

National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People

Question 5

What does UNIA stand for?

Answer 5

Universal Negro Improvement and Conversation Association

Question 6

What do the NAACP and UNIA have in common?

Answer 6

They were the most important black political movements and those movements encouraged blacks to set up their own businesses and restaurants and boycott large stores that would not employ black staff.

Question 7

What did the UNIA and the NAACP criticise about each other?

Answer 7

Garvey (UNIA) criticised the middle-class black of the NAACP for being ashamed of their ancestry and trying to integrate into white society.
NAACP in turn criticised UNIA for concentrating solely on race and calling for separatism, also claiming that Garvey’s steamship was cheating its customers.

Question 8

When and why was Garvey arrested? (Hint: UNIA)

Answer 8

1923 - arrested on fraud charges and later deported to Jamaica

Question 9

Outline the Monkey-Scopes Trial

Answer 9

Science teacher John Scopes taught the theory of evolution to his classes - going against the anti-evolution law.
Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution was banned in some states.
State of Tennessee argued that it wasn’t correct and was against the creation part of the bible.
Scopes found guilty and fined $100 - failure though to the fundamentalists for trying to censor what was taught in schools