Black American civil rights, c1917–55

Question 1

Which early amendments were passed in the 19th century which aided Black African-Americans?

Answer 1

13th, 14th, 15th Amendments

Question 2

Which Black African-American gave a famous speech that came to be known as the ‘Atlanta Compromise’?

Answer 2

Booker T Washington

Question 3

What was the Atlanta Compromise?

Answer 3

Progress through education and entrepreneurship, rather than trying to challenge directly the Jim Crow segregation and the disenfranchisement of black voters in the South

Question 4

How many Black African Americans died in the Elaine Race riot in Arkansas in 1919?

Answer 4

100-237

Question 5

What is the name of the set of laws that were aimed at introducing and maintaining segregation?

Answer 5

Jim Crow Laws

Question 6

How many Black African Americans were at polling booths in Louisiana in 1896 and 1904?

Answer 6

130,334 fell to 1,342

Question 7

How old was Emmett Till?

Answer 7

14

Question 8

What year was the Plessy vs. Ferguson ruling and what was its characteristic phrase?

Answer 8

1896 and ‘separate but equal’

Question 9

By 1920, what percentage of African Americans lived in Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio?

Answer 9

40%

Question 10

Rise in African American population in New York, Chicago and Detroit between 1910 and 1930?

Answer 10

141,553 to 682,275

Question 11

Phrase used to describe the actions taken by Black African Americans to migrate North?

Answer 11

‘voting with their feet’

Question 12

Who issued Executive order 8802 banning racial discrimination in the defence industry that was overseen by the Fair Employment Practises Committee?

Answer 12

FDR in 1941

Question 13

What did the National Recovery Administration do to minimum wages during the New Deal?

Answer 13

Set both Black and White minimum wages to be equal

Question 14

Which case did the NAACP turn down for it then to be taken up by communists to find the defendants innocent?

Answer 14

Scottsboro Boys in 1931

Question 15

How many members of NAACP were there in Alabama vs. number of Black American communists?

Answer 15

6 vs 3000

Question 16

Who setup shops in Harlem that provided goods at a lower price to Black African Americans?

Answer 16

Father Divine of the Peace Mission church group (1932-1942)

Question 17

What was the Housewives League motto?

Answer 17

‘Don’t buy where you can’t work’ (started in Detroit)

Question 18

Where was Alpha Kappa Alpha able to help with medical care?

Answer 18

Mississippi

Question 19

What did Executive order 7027 order in May 1935 do?

Answer 19

Resettle low-income families and provide loans if needed

Question 20

How many farmers were influenced by Executive order 7027 of 1935?

Answer 20

3,400 of 200,000

Question 21

How many people signed the petition asking for federal aid to return to Africa?

Answer 21

2 million

Question 22

When was Pearl Harbour?

Answer 22

7 December 1941

Question 23

Who led the 100,000 strong march that led to executive order 8802 in 1941?

Answer 23

A. Philip Randolph

Question 24

What was the percentage of black African Americans working in the defense industry in 1942 and 1944?

Answer 24

3% and 8%

Question 25

When did Truman setup the President's Committee on Civil Rights?

Answer 25

1946

Question 26

What did Truman's Committee on Civil Rights call for?

Answer 26

Equal opportunities in work and housing and strong federal support for civil rights

Question 27

Which Black civil rights group formed in 1935, became a suspect organisation due to it having some communist members?

Answer 27

National Negro Congress

Question 28

In which year did Truman issue executive orders desegregating the military and all work done by businesses for the government?

Answer 28

1948

Question 29

What was the NAACP membership in 1917, 1919 and 1946?

Answer 29

9,000 to 90,000 to 600,000

Question 30

When was the Scottsboro trial?

Answer 30

1931

Question 31

What did the Scottsboro trial show?

Answer 31

An extreme case of a miscarriage of justice

Question 32

How many Scottsboro boys were there?

Answer 32

9 (all innocent)

Question 33

What did the Murray vs Maryland (1936) ruling represent?

Answer 33

University of Maryland's law school is desegregated

Question 34

What did the Sweatt vs Painter (1950) and McLaurin vs Oklahoma (1950) rulings do?

Answer 34

Desegregated graduate and professional schools in Texas and Oklahoma

Question 35

What did the Missouri ex el Gaines vs Canada (1938)?

Answer 35

University of Missouri to take black students

Question 36

What was the Shelley vs Kraemer (1948) ruling?

Answer 36

Banning racial covenants on any property

Question 37

When, where and how many people were in the Silent Protest Parade?

Answer 37

June 1917, New York, 10,000 people

Question 38

Where did the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) hold sit ins?

Answer 38

Chicago (1942), St Louis (1949) and Baltimore (1952)

Question 39

Which group joined CORE in 1947 to do the Journey of Reconciliation on buses through Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky to desegregate them?

Answer 39

Fellowship for reconciliation

Question 40

What were the tactics of the Black African American movement at the time?

Answer 40

Non-violence

Question 41

When was the first Brown vs Board of Education ruling?

Answer 41

1954