The Position of Black Americans in the early 1950s

Question 1

What is Discrimination?

Answer 1

Treating a person less fairly because of their race or skin colour.

Question 2

What is segregation?

Answer 2

Separate conditions for black and white people.

Question 3

What are Jim Crow Laws?

Answer 3

Laws that segregated African Americans from white people in daily life.

Question 4

What was Plessy v Ferguson?

Answer 4

In 1897 when Supreme Court had judged that if separate conditions for black & white people were equal, then segregation was constitutional.

Question 5

When was slavery?

Answer 5

1776-1865

Question 6

When was the American Civil war?

Answer 6

1860-1865

Question 7

Who wom the Americal Civil War?

Answer 7

The North (Union)

Question 8

When was the Klu Klix Klan (KKK) formed?

Answer 8

1865

Question 9

When was the Plessy vs Ferguson decision made?

Answer 9

1896

Question 10

How many black Americans moved from South to North, and when?

Answer 10

1920-1930

824,000 Black Americans moved from the South to the North.

Question 11

When were ghettos created?

Answer 11

1920-1930

Question 12

What are ghettos?

Answer 12

Places where many African Americans used to live.

Question 13

When was the NAACP formed?

Answer 13

1909

Question 14

How many members did the NAACP have by 1919?

Answer 14

91,000 people

Question 15

When was the Back to Africa movement?

Answer 15

1924

Question 16

When were 1mil+ black americans conscripted in the army?

Answer 16

1941-45