Truman: civil rights

Question 1

When was core founded?

Answer 1

1942

Question 2

Race riots?

Answer 2

1944

100k - 34 deaths

Question 3

The ruling of Jim Crow laws?

Answer 3

Please v Ferguson 1896

Question 4

How many blacks went to the north from the south?

Answer 4

1940: 1.4million
1950: 1.1 million

Question 5

What was Levittown?

Answer 5

1944 construction of white only suburban homes

Question 6

Who was Powell?

Answer 6

Politician in HofR
Spokesman for blacks
1961- chair of the house educTion and labour committee

Question 7

smith vs allwright

Answer 7

1944

Allowed African Americans in Texas to vote in primaries

Question 8

When and what was

Morgan vs Virginia?

Answer 8

Segregation on interstate buses illegal

Question 9

Shelley v Kramer?

Answer 9

1948

Estate agents cannot refuse to show black homes

Question 10

Who was thurgood Marshall?

Answer 10

Lawyer for NAACP

Superme court in 1967

Question 11

When was the presidents committee on civil rights established?

Answer 11

1946

To Monitor inequality

Question 12

To secure these rights

Answer 12

1947

To end discrimination

Question 13

Trumans political opposition?

Answer 13

James eastland - missippi senator

Storm Thurmond- s. Carolina senator