AA Time Periods Flashcards
(3 cards)
Guilded age
Gains :
- literacy 1865 1/20 1895 2/20
- Booker T
- deputy marshal reeves lawmaker
- Jim Crows
- rise AA religious organisations banks companies by AA
1900 47,000 AA professionals but this was out of 8 million AA population
Loss:
- segregated Tennessee railway law continued with other southern states
- plessy v Ferguson 1896 separate but equal
- segregated districts in south north 5000 AA in one area Chicago
- restrict black voting grandfather clauses
- 1867 reconstruction act
- last AA congressman George H white retired 1901
- lynching
- westward expansion don’t have skills or money
- false arrests labour gangs forced
Booker T
New deal
Gains :
- Robert weaver advisor one economic status of negro in 1934 then head of public works administration his appointment led to grants of $45 build school hospital homes for AA
- federal emergency relief administration 1933-35
- quarter if Million get education
- national youth administration
- farms security administartion help
- Roosevelt spoke against lynching but no law passed
- some appointments of AA to new deal offices
- Eleanor Roosevelt support AA
- NAACP grew in membership later 1930s
- Harlem reneasiance black performers high culture
Loss:
- sharecroppers can’t pay rent little done for 200,000 evicted
- unemployment
- attempts to help poor exclude AA
- NRA national recovery administration not in industrial north+ evaded by south
- Wagner help union workers but not AA
- social security act not on work AA do
- segregationist in army ww2
- civilian conservation corps worst job pay
- Roosevelt did not increase AA voting rights
- number on benefits high
Black power
Malcom x - Marcus Garvey 1965 killed X
Gains
- AA culture music dress appearance
- courses run on AA culture
- black is beautiful Afro hair than white copying
- 1968 olympics power salute
- 1972 - national black political convention
Loss:
- division
- violence
- mlk critical
- police suppression
Reject white
More influence Jamaica BR
