Civil Rights Movement

Question 1

What is the emancipation proclamation 1863?

Answer 1

“That all persons held as slaves within the rebellious states are and henceforward shall be free”

Question 2

What are the Jim Crow Laws?

Answer 2

Segregation of public schools, public places and public transportation between 1877 and mid 1950

Question 3

What is Equal but separate?

Answer 3

The supreme courts ruled that racially separate facilities if equal did not violate the constitution, the court said it was not discriminatory
After the please and Ferguson case
This meant that southern states could use it against attempts for desegregation as it was upheld by supreme courts

Question 4

What were the attitudes I. The South of America?

Answer 4

hi Many southern white people were brought up to see black peoples as racially inferior and those who objected to the discrimination of these black people were called “white n”

Question 5

What was the people like in the North an South of America?

Answer 5

The south (deep south) were completely segregated 
The North were discriminatory ( didn’t lynch or hang black people) The North did not use the Jim Crow laws of segregation on buses transport everything

Question 6

What was the support like in the South?

Answer 6

There was no support from officials
No legal support
If a black Person murdered another person it would be dismissed as a negro crime

Question 7

How was Malik people depicted in 1930s Warner Bros cartoon?

Answer 7

Treated as animals 
Didn’t have modern things 
Animals
Crazy
Working under white people (white personnel as their queen)

Question 8

1850/ Blackface performance??

Answer 8

Black people were shown as less educated
Clowns
Change of speech

Question 9

What were the supreme courts?

What could they do?

Answer 9

They could overturn and overrule a law if it was unfair, but this was a difficult process
The supreme courts didn’t want black people to ask for more after the vote has been given to them, so the court has been very slow

Question 10

What were federal laws?

Answer 10

Laws that covered the entire country

Question 11

Who were the Ku Klux Klan?

Answer 11

A group of people who persecuted anyone who wasn’t white

Question 12

What had black people hoped for during WW2

Answer 12

They hoped for more equality when the war was ended

Question 13

Education??

Answer 13

Better education for blacks especially in the north led to more black professionals some moved to cities in the south to educate which changed white view of black Americans

Question 14

Who were the NAACP?

Answer 14

National association for the advancement of coloured people

They fought in courts for their civil rights

Question 15

Who were the MIA?

Answer 15

Montgomery fought for buses, tried desegregate make equal

Question 16

Positives and negatives of the outcome of the NAACP

Answer 16

Negatives
White employees threatened to sack black employees if they registered to vote or voted
White gangs gathered outside registration and voting places they stopped them or bested them up
Black people who went to defend their right to vote faced beatings or murder

Question 17

Republicans - the south

Answer 17

Traditionally gets votes form the south 
Believe in free business
No welfare
Christians – often anti abortion
Sometimes anti immigration

Question 18

What were the democrats- the North

Answer 18

Get support from the northern states

Believe in social welfare
Wants to protect the environment
Believe in more government involvement in peoples lives

Question 19

What were the Dixiecrats

Answer 19

Democrats we broke away from the Democratic party because they did not believe in their support of civil rights did not want to give black people civil rights

Question 20

What happened to Emmett till?

Answer 20

Emmett till was from Chicago he didn’t understand that they were racist white people he said to the white girl bye baby his body was found in towahachi river his body was shipped home he was shot in the head his mother insisted on an open casket so people can see what they did to him the NAACP what hard to keep the case in the news so people could know his uncle was threatened if he testified the verdict was not guilty journalists published the story

Question 21

What was the Brown vs board of education

Answer 21

The NAA CP got all five schools do you segregation cases together and took them to court as Brown re-the board of education on the 17th of May 1954 the Supreme Court ruled that life has changed as segregation made black children feel inferior in 1952 they did not make ruling in 1955 the world that there should be a desegregation at deliberate speed in 1954 no timescale for the segregation