Civil Rights 1939-62 Flashcards
(37 cards)
Who served in segregated units
Black Americans
By 1945 there were how many black Americans in the us army
750,000
The US airforce would not except who
Black pilots
Black nurses could only treat who
Black soldiers
Black soldiers could only be treated with blood from who
Other black soldiers
What sort of tasks were black soldiers given
Menial jobs or were made to do the most dangerous jobs
Who was the US supreme commander
Eisenhower
There were hundreds of black officers in the armed forces
1944
By what year we’re there how many black pilots
600 black pilots by 1945
How many black sailors ad risen to the rank of officer
58
By what year had the army gone from the most segregated to integrated
1955
What did the double v campaign hope to gain
Gain improved civil rights as well as victory in war
Roosevelt issued an executive order which stopped what
Discrimination in industrial and government jobs
The amount of black Americans in gov jobs trebled to what
200,000
Racial tension still existed and led to race riots in how many cities
47
South Carolina spent treble the amount on what than what
White schools than black schools
Landmark Supreme Court case
Brown v Topeka
Who represented Linda brown
Thurgood Marshall from the NAACP
What did Marshall argue
Educational achievement was restricted and self esteem damaged by the separate but equal Jim Crow laws
In 1954 it was ruled that segregation in education was what
Unconstitutional
Despite the ruling how many children were still educated in Jim Crow schools
2.4 million in 1957
President Eisenhower did little to what
Encourage integration until he was forced to by events at Little Rock, Arkansas 1957
Who ordered national guardsmen to block the entrance of who
State governor Faubus
Elizabeth Eckford and 8 other students
