(The changing status of minorities) The extent of change by 1955 Flashcards
What was still present in the south?
Segregation
What was still commonplace in the north?
Discrimination in housing and employment.
What was the ‘Southern Manifesto’?
When?
Declared the Brown vs Topeka case was an abuse of judicial power.
1955
How many congressmen signed the ‘Southern Manifesto’?
100
What was set up to defend legal segregation?
South White Citizen Councils
What declared the Brown vs Topeka case to be an abuse of judicial power in 1955?
The ‘Southern Manifesto’
What did many ethnic minorities continue to face?
Daily racism & life below the poverty line.
What did the poll tax mean (in the Old South)?
Many black americans and some poorer whites were prevented from voting.
What were many HISPANIC and BLACK Americans victim to in the Old South?
What did this do?
White supremacists
Using violence & intimidation, it maintained the belief that non-WASPs were second-class citizens.
What view was fostered by many Old South politicians in congress and state government?
Non-WASPs were second class citizens.
