Social Developments: Developments for African Americans from 1945-75 1

Question 1

How much money did Truman give to the Fair Employment Practices Commission to extend their organisation?

Answer 1

$500,000

Question 2

What fraction of cases did the Fair Employment Practices Commission win in the North?

Answer 2

2/3

Question 2

What fraction of cases did the Fair Employment Practices Commission win in the West?

Answer 2

1/3

Question 2

What year did Truman desegregate the Navy?

Answer 2

1946

Question 3

What did the Civil Rights Committee say in 1947?

Answer 3

The USA could not be leading the free world if they treated African Americans poorly

Question 4

How many NAACP members were there in 1945?

Answer 4

450,000

Question 5

Why did pursuing Civil Rights relate to the cold war?

Answer 5

The USSR and China treated all of their citizens equally

Question 6

How many Congress members banded together to prevent Civil Rights laws from passing during Trumann’s time in office?

Answer 6

35

Question 7

What party did some Southern Democrats make in 1948?

Answer 7

States Rights Party

Question 8

How many votes did the States Rights party win?

Answer 8

1 million

Question 9

How many states did the States Rights party win? What region of the USA were they located in?

Answer 9

4 states, all in the South

Question 10

What form of hospitals did Eisenhower desegregate?

Answer 10

Veterans hospitals

Question 11

What Supreme Court case was there in 1954?

Answer 11

Brown v Board of Education

Question 12

What was the ruling of the 1954 Brown v Board of Education case?

Answer 12

Schools would be desegregated

Question 13

In 1946, what fraction of African Americans were illiterate?

Answer 13

1/4

Question 14

Did the Supreme Court decide they would give sanctions to schools that did not desegregate?

Answer 14

No

Question 15

What year were 9 Black students meant to attend Little Rock High School?

Answer 15

1957

Question 16

What did the Governer of Arkansas do to prevent the Little Rock 9 from entering school?

Answer 16

Used national guardsmen

Question 17

By what year were 300,000 African Americans desegregated schools?

Answer 17

1957

Question 17

How many federal troops did Eisenhower have to send in to protect the Little Rock 9?

Answer 17

1000 troops

Question 18

What was the importance of Eisenhower using this action for the Little Rock 9 in terms of the frequency he did things like this?

Answer 18

It was the only time he did something like this

Question 19

How many African Americans were in segregated schools by 1957? What region of the USA were they located in?

Answer 19

250,000, in Southern states

Question 20

What did Southern states implement for any schools that had desegregation procedures?

Answer 20

They had a sanctions system

Question 21

What did Virginia do to all of their public schools in 1959?

Answer 21

Closed all of their public schools

Question 22

What did Virginia do for their white students in 1959?

Answer 22

They paid for them all to go to private schools

Question 23

What did a law that Mississippi passed state?

Answer 23

Desegregation of schools was illegal

Question 24

By 1964, what percentage of African Americans in the South were in desegregated schools?

Answer 24

2%

Question 25

Why could Eisenhower have done more for Civil Rights in relation to Republican support?

Answer 25

Republicans did not have support in the South

Question 26

What does the 1956 election result show in relation to what Eisenhower could have done with Civil RIghts?

Answer 26

He could have done more

Question 27

What year was the Southern Manifesto made?

Answer 27

1956

Question 28

How many Southern States were in the Southern Manifesto?

Answer 28

22 states

Question 29

What did the Southern Manifesto states say about how segregation should be handled?

Answer 29

Said it should be handled by the states themselves

Question 30

How many lynchings were there in the 1950s?

Answer 30

11

Question 31

In what year of the 1950s did 8 lynchings take place?

Answer 31

1955

Question 32

Why was Emmet Till kidnapped?

Answer 32

He had been talking to a white girl

Question 32

What happened to Emmet Till after he was kidnapped?

Answer 32

He was killed

Question 33

What did the court that tried the men that kidnapped Emmet Till decide?

Answer 33

The men were not guilty

Question 34

What did Rosa Parks do on a bus in Montgomery in 1955?

Answer 34

She sat on a part of it that was meant for White people only

Question 35

After Rosa Parks was arrested, who organised the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Answer 35

Martin Luther King

Question 36

How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?

Answer 36

1 year

Question 37

How many people participated in the Montgomery Bus Boycott marches?

Answer 37

50,000 people

Question 38

What happened to the Montgomery Bus company because of the boycott?

Answer 38

They nearly went bankrupt

Question 39

What did the Montgomery Bus company nearly going bankrupt show about African American boycotts?

Answer 39

African Americans held a lot of economic power

Question 40

What year did the Supreme Court rule segregation of transport illegal?

Answer 40

1956

Question 41

What year did Eisenhower pass a Civil Rights Act?

Answer 41

1960

Question 42

What was the 1960 Civil Rights Act meant to do?

Answer 42

Meant to give African Americans the ability to vote easier

Question 43

What was the reality with the 1960 Civil Rights Act?

Answer 43

It was ineffective