Key statistics for US CIVIL RIGHTS

Question 1

What percentage of black Americans lived in the south?

Answer 1

• 90%

Question 2

How many enslaved people were free by 1865?

Answer 2

• 4 million people freed

Question 3

How many black men did a Memphis mob kill in the race riots of 1866 summer?

Answer 3

• 40 black men

Question 4

How many deaths and injuries caused by the KKK in Mississippi alone in 1871?

Answer 4

• 2000 deaths and injuries

Question 5

How many black males vs white males were registered to vote in the South during Reconstruction?

Answer 5

• 700,000 black males were registered vs 600,000 white males.

Question 6

How many black men elected to congress during Reconstruction?

Answer 6

• 16 black men

Question 7

What was the voter turn out in the 1870s?

Answer 7

• 80% of eligible black men voted in the 1870s

Question 8

How many KKK members across the south by 1871?

Answer 8

• 500,000

Question 9

How many black Americans killed in the Colfax Massacre 1873?

Answer 9

• Over 100 black Americans

Question 10

What was the literacy rate of black Americans vs white Americans in the south by 1890?

Answer 10

• 65% of black Americans were illiterate vs 15% of whites being illiterate

Question 11

Voter suppression in Louisiana between 1896 and 1904?

Answer 11

• 130,000 in 1896 to 1342 in 1904

Question 12

How many lynchings in 1892?

Answer 12

• 230

Question 13

What percentage of black males could vote in Mississippi

Answer 13

3% of black males

Question 14

What % of black Americans were sharecroppers by 1900?

Answer 14

• 75% of black Americans.

Question 15

What percentage of black workers were unemployed in 1932?

Answer 15

50%

Question 16

How many black Americans did the CCC hire?

Answer 16

• 200,000

Question 17

How many black Americans lynches between 1901-29?

Answer 17

• 1200

Question 18

How many black sharecroppers were evicted because of the Agricultural Adjustment Act?

Answer 18

• 200,000 black Americans evicted out of roughly 690,000.

Question 19

Difference in monthly relief cheques from the FERA between black and white Americans?

Answer 19

$32.66 for white people, $19.29 for black people in Atlanta

Question 20

How much did Mississippi put into the Social Security Act

Answer 20

• Only $8

Question 21

What % of voters were supporting Roosevelt by 1936?

Answer 21

• 76%

Question 22

What was the increase in black federal employees between 1932 and 1941?

Answer 22

• 50,000 in 1932 to 150,000 in 1941

Question 23

How many schools in the south still segregated by 1964?

Answer 23

• 91%

Question 24

How long was the Montgomery Bus Boycott and what % of black participation

Answer 24

• 381 days long, 90%

Question 25

How many people particpated in sit ins in 1960?

Answer 25

- 70,000 participants

Question 26

How much did black voter registration in Mississippi rise by from 1965 to 1968?

Answer 26

- 6% to 60% between 1965 and 1968

Question 27

What % of the black vote did Obama win?

Answer 27

- 95%, 13 million black voters turned out

Question 28

How many moved during First Great Migration?

Answer 28

- 1.5 million

Question 29

How many moved during slow drift north?

Answer 29

approx 500,000 black Americans

Question 30

How many moved during the Second Great migration?

Answer 30

- 5 million

Question 31

How many Chicago black residents by 1960?

Answer 31

- 800,000

Question 32

How much money did Watts 1965 costs?

Answer 32

$40 million

Question 33

New York City black population increase 1

Answer 33

- 60,000 to 100,000 (1880-1900)

Question 34

How many KKK members by 1925 because of Birth of a Nation

Answer 34

- 4 million

Question 35

How many Academy Awards did In the Heat of the Night win?

Answer 35

- 5 Academy Awards

Question 36

How much did Malcom X produce?

Answer 36

- $73 million worldwide

Question 37

How many tickets sold for Gone with the win worldwide?

Answer 37

- 200 million tickets sold

Question 38

How many copies of Uncle Tom's Cabin sold in the first year?

Answer 38

- 300,000 copies in its first year

Question 39

How many copies of to kill a mocking bird worldwide?

Answer 39

- 40 million copies - Won Pulitzer Prize (1961)

Question 40

How many copies did the Help sell and how much money did the film make?

Answer 40

- 10 million copies of the book - $216 million from the film

Question 41

How much more money did Obama raise than Clinton in the primaries?

Answer 41

- 2x more than Hillary Clinton in the primaries

Question 42

How did Obama exploit the internet?

Answer 42

- Facebook: 2 million+ supporters, YouTube: 20 million+ views

Question 43

How many black residents arrived in Chicago between 1910 and 1920?

Answer 43

- 50,000

Question 44

How many were killed during the Chicago Race Riot? (how many homes destroyed)

Answer 44

- 15 white people and 25 black people - Homes of 1000 black Americans

Question 45

Statistics of casualties in Tusla 1921?

Answer 45

- 1000 black houses were burned down - 10,000 black Ameericans were left homeless - 300 black Americans died - 800 white people injured

Question 46

Statistics from Watts 1965?

Answer 46

- 34 died - 1000 injured - $40 million worth of damage

Question 47

Statistics from Newark 1967?

Answer 47

- Over 20 died and hundreds were injured