The Quest for Civil Rights, 1917-80

Question 1

How many Africans migrated from the South to the North between 1910-70?

Answer 1

6 million

Question 2

What was Booker T Washingtons views?

Answer 2

black americans should accept segregation

Question 3

what was Garveys views?

Answer 3

’ Back to Africa’

Question 4

What were the Jim Crow Laws?

Answer 4

segregated every part of life

Question 5

what was meant by the Plessy v Ferguson 1896?

Answer 5

segregation was meant to be separate but equal

Question 6

Between 1915 and 1930 how many black men were lynched?

Answer 6

576

Question 7

What did Du Bois view?

Answer 7

believed in rapid integration and focused on gaining legal and political equality. Founded NAACP

Question 8

When was the Great Migration?

Answer 8

1917 - 1932

Question 9

How many black people were estimated to have left the south?

Answer 9

2 million

Question 10

What was the executive order 8802?

Answer 10

it banned racial discrimination in the defence industry

Question 11

Who did FDR appointed as a federal judge.

Answer 11

William Hustle

Question 12

Who did the Social Security Act and National Labour Relations Act in 1935 exclude ?

Answer 12

farm workers and domestic workers - which was mainly black americans

Question 13

What did the WPA do in the New Deal?

Answer 13

By 1939, they had employed 425,000 black relief workers. this included skilled jobs and fair wages.

Question 14

How many Americans obtained jobs through the New Deal?

Answer 14

1million

Question 15

What did the presidents committee on civil rights do?

Answer 15

they provided equal opportunities in work and housing

Question 16

what was the executive order 9981?

Answer 16

desegregated the military

Question 17

Who was Thurgood Marshall?

Answer 17

first black american to serve in the supreme court. The NAACP used him as a lawyer. He argued the Brown v board case in 1954.

Question 18

What was the problem with Brown V Board?

Answer 18

‘desegregation should be carried out wiht all deliberate speed’ - no time frame

Question 19

Who was James Farmer and what did he do?

Answer 19

aimed to achieve black equality in an integrated society - established CORE (freedom rides -riding interstate buses through the southern states, sit-ins in chicago)

Question 20

What impact did the great depression have on employment?

Answer 20

black unemployment was up 5 timer

Question 21

What was asked for in the Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955?

Answer 21

• asked for more black employees
  -wanted white drivers to be more polite to black passengers

Question 22

What did the bus boycott do?

Answer 22

in 1956 bus segregation was unconstitutional

Question 23

What happened in Little Rock?

Answer 23

Arkansas, 1957. de facto for brown Vs board

Question 24

What are the Freedom rides of 1961?

Answer 24

CORE and SNCC - freedom rides through the south. Organised by James Farmer. In the deep south buses were firebombed and attacked. Freedom riders were imprisoned in Birmingham and beaten up in Montgomery, three were killed.

Question 25

March On Washington 1963:

Answer 25

Organised by A.Philip Randolph organised the March. Televised worldwide.