Truman African-Americans

Question 1

During the Great Migration, how man African-Americans left the South In the 1940s and then in the 1950s?

Answer 1

In the 1940s, 1.4 million and a further 1.1 million in the 1950s

Question 2

What part of WW2 prompted African-Americans to challenge discrimination?

Answer 2

There was a lack of segregation abroad

Question 3

Civil Rights groups that saw an increase in membership (what did NAACP membership increase to?)

Answer 3

NAACP (1909) Core (1942). NAACP membership grew from 50,000 to 450,000 after WW2.

Question 4

What event after WW2 caused Truman to want to change things?

Answer 4

The blinding of Isaac Woodard

Question 5

(North)
What ways was de facto segregation present in society?

Answer 5

economic segregation (restrictive covenants), social pressure (revival of the third klan of the KKK) and ghettoization.

Question 6

(North)
Examples of political power increasing for African Americans

Answer 6

William L Dawson elected in Chicago and Adam Clayton Powell elected in Harlem

Question 7

Who was the first black baseball player in the MLB in 1947?

Answer 7

Jackie Robinson

Question 8

What did the NAACP do legally?

Answer 8

Established the legal defence fund and fought supreme court cases

Question 9

What was Smith V. Allwright and when?

Answer 9

Gave voting rights in primaries in 1944

Question 10

What was Morgan V. Virginia and when?

Answer 10

Made segregation on interstate buses illegal in 1946

Question 11

What was Shelley V. Kramer and when?

Answer 11

Estate agents could not refuse to show and sell to black clients in 1948

Question 12

What was McLaurin V. Oklahoma state and when?

Answer 12

McLaurin could enter the university of Oklahoma in 1950

Question 13

What was Sweatt V. Painter and when?

Answer 13

Second education case in a law school in 1950