The Civil Rights movement

Question 1

Why were there so many riots?

Answer 1

police discrimination they harassed young black men more then keeping ghettos safe
discrimination by white officials-did not respond to complaints about issues about badly-repaired roads
twice as likely to be unemployed
poor quality education

Question 2

What was the pattern of the riots?

Answer 2

trigger incident often involve police
minor attacks on property
increasing violence and looting
state troops bought into to stop violence

Question 3

When was the Kerner report set up?

Answer 3

1968

Question 4

What did the kerner report say?

Answer 4

riots were usually the result of ghettos conditions produced by segregation and discrimination
federal money after riots to improve was give to the police
police made it worse by using violence

Question 5

Why did King campaign in Watts?

Answer 5

wanted to show non-direct violent action can get you results and then the CCCO asked the SCLC to join them in a non violent campaign for fairer housing they accepted it in 1966

Question 6

Who was James Bevel and how did he help the campaign for fairer housing?

Answer 6

He was from the SCLC and helped CCCO to organise tenants association to fight the Chicago reals estate board segregated housing and unfair high rents

Question 7

What did Jesse Jackson do to help the campaign?

Answer 7

from the SCLC helped organise operation Breadbasket(boycotts to pressurise white business to employ black people)

Question 8

What happened on the 7 Jan 1966?

Answer 8

SCLC officially announced plans for Chicago freedom movement and king went to chicago

Question 9

What did King do?

Answer 9

called meeting arranged demonstrations but Chicago’s black opposition opposed the campaign

Question 10

Who was Richard Daley what did he do?

Answer 10

Chicago’s Mayor he used words to negotiate and he said he would support them but he did nothing

Question 11

Why did the marches that the Chicago freedom movement not go to plan at the time they wanted?

Answer 11

planned marches to provoke a violent response and to gain publicity but before it happened a riot broke out king was abused for not achieving any gains in Chicago

Question 12

How much support did they gain?

Answer 12

March happened and Daley blamed the SCLC
produced a violent response and the expected publicity but it was far less supportive than it had been to the backlash from white people in the south

Question 13

What did they achieve at the end of the campaign?

Answer 13

Daley agreed to meet with the Chicago freedom movement nd Chicago real estate board which lead to an agreement of faire housing practices
king and sclc left Chicago once done

Question 14

Why was the campaign a success?

Answer 14

peaceful demonstrations

agreement of operation breadbasket which was running and it helped black people to find a job in white owned business

Question 15

Why was the campaign seen as a failure?

Answer 15

violence on both sides and king was not bale to stop the riots that had been broken out before the march
Government did no rush daley to carry out the agreement

Question 16

What happened when king left Chicago?

Answer 16

Daley ignored the agreement he made with chicago freedom movement and policies did not change
CCCO had warned King this would have happened when he would leave this is why campaign was seen as a failure

Question 17

When was Martin Luther King assassinated?

Answer 17

4 April 1968
shot whilst standing on the balcony of a motel
he had arrived the day before preparing for a march supporting rubbish collectors and he was planning “Poor People Campaign” on behalf of all the poor not just black

Question 18

What happened after King Death?

Answer 18

riots in 172 towns 
9 april (king funeral) many people were dead and arrested and they caused $45 million worth of damage

Question 19

Did the poor People Campaign succeed?

Answer 19

integrated group of marches marched to Washington and set up camp there
The campaign failed and SCLC leaders and the protestors argued poured with rain and camp broke up

Question 20

What did the 1968 Civil Rights act cover?

Answer 20

passed quickly
includes fair housing,covering rental housing and housing sales made after the passing of the act
act gave federal protection to civil rights workers and made punishment for riots worse

Question 21

Why did support drop?

Answer 21

national civil rights group lost funding and support from white people.From 1965 white public opinion had been less supportive of civil rights and the voter registration act
the northern riots caused a drop in support

Question 22

What did SNCC change their name to what was a result of this?

Answer 22

In 1969 SNCC changed the “N” to national and lost all its original members resulted to black people becoming more militant and white opposed black equality increasing conflict than agreement

Question 23

When did Nixon become president/How did he get the support of the whites?

Answer 23

1969
spoke for civil rights
many of the reforms he introduced were sold to the white community as being likely to stop riots
he encouraged black buisness and black home ownership saying people would less likely destroy their own property

Question 24

What did Nixon do when he was president?

Answer 24

set up funding and training for black people setting up business in black neighbourhoods
made sure there were more black officials in the white house
gave tax breaks to white own business that were set in black neighbourhoods

Question 25

What was affirmative action?

Answer 25

nixon introduced this
it was the deliberate choosing of black person for a job over a white person
saw this as a way to get job equality

Question 26

Was there any changes for the voter registration act?

Answer 26

in 1970 the act was revised to ban state literacy test and in 1975 it was revised to include Hispanic,American India and other races

Question 27

What did the civil rights campaigners and federal government hoped that would happen in 1954?

Answer 27

enforced changes would change thinking that the next generation would be more integrated and accepting instead racism ran more deeper in the USA North and South