USA - Obstacles to Achievment of Civil Rights Up to 1941

Question 1

Obstacles to Civil Rights up to 1941

Answer 1

• Discrimination
• Division in the black community
• Lack of political influence
• KKK
• Legal impediments

Question 2

Intro (Obstacles to civil rights - 1941)

Answer 2

• “God almighty drew the colour line and it cannot be obliterated” Richmond Times 1900
• Structure; background, this factor… others are, this essay, link

Question 3

Division in Black Community (Civil up to 1941)

Answer 3

• Rather educate than fight (Booker T. Washington + Tuskegee Institute), did not take immediate action
• Move away (Marcus Garvey + UNIA move to Africa), running away from problem
• • Garvey arrested for fraud in 1922

Question 4

Discrimination (Civil up to 1941)

Answer 4

• Higher rent (Chicago 7 room house $25 white, $37.50 black), forced pay more colour
• Less jobs (WW1 soldiers given jobs back), forced out of work and society
• • 1920/30, 20 million below poverty line

Question 5

KKK (Civil up to 1941)

Answer 5

• Attacked in street (87/109 lynching’s black 1899), targeted
• Enormous support (15% eligible population member of Klan), support across country
• • “And rose into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South” Woodrow Wilson

Question 6

Legal Impediments (Civil up to 1941)

Answer 6

• Cannot be with whoever (“All marriages between a white and negro (to 4th gen) are hereby forever prohibited” Florida), prevents free choice
• Inadequate health care (“No white nurse to nurse in wards in which negro men are placed” Alabama), worse treatment
• • Plessy vs. Ferguson (Supreme Court “laws which keep the races separate do not mean a race is better or worse than the other” separate but not equal)

Question 7

Conclusion (Civil up to 1941)

Answer 7

• Judgment and reasons for

- Other factors in order (with reasons)