African American (spesific) Flashcards
Key political rights events
- Mississippi v Williams 1890
- Voting rights act 1965
- 15th amendment
- New Deal
- Malcolm X and black power
- Tunis Campbell
- 1877 compromise
- Selma campaign 1965
Key social rights
- Brown v Board 1954
- Plessy v Ferguson
- 14th amendment
- civil rights act 1964
- Montgomery buss boycott
- new deal
- Malcolm X and black power
- Birmingham campaign 1953
Key economic rights
• sharecropping
• new deal
• WWI
• WWIII
• black power
• 1964 civil rights act
• Boomer T. Washington
• Reagon
13th amendement
Date: 1865
Event:
Impact:
Black codes
Date: 1865/66
Event:
- withheld the right to vote
Impact:
- a new form of slavery as it limited AA job options so had to return to plantations
Presidential reconstruction
Date: 1865
Event:
Impact:
- Military enforcement of 14th and 15th Amendments
- indicating an unprecedented level of federal government intervention to protect AA rights and eliminate Black Codes - short term impact due to Redemption but change
- Sharecropping long term impact e.g. poverty, debt, dependence on white landowners (significant proportion AAs up to at least WWII)
1877 compromise
- Redemption and end of Reconstruction – long term impact and change arguably lasting until the 1960s
- Precondition for establishment of Jim Crow i.e. segregation, discrimination and disenfranchisement
- Widespread use of violence and intimidation by White Leagues and Red Shirts in relation to voting rights and transgression of racial values e.g. miscegenation
Plessy v Ferguson
Mississippi v Williams 1890
WWI , Great Migration, Garvey and UNIA
New Deal
WWII
Brown V board
1954
Montgomery buss boycott
Birmingham campaign 1953
