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Mind Map by Niamh MacElvogue, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Niamh MacElvogue
over 9 years ago
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Position of Black Americans
- Jim Crow laws
- Laws
after end
of slavery
(1860)
- Controlled black
people's freedoms
as the 41 state
governments feared
the growing power
of black people
- Segregated blacks
from whites in
schools, parks,
hospitals, swimming
pools, libraries and
other public places
- After WWI - extended to
taxis and boxing matches
- After WWI - extended to
taxis and boxing matches
- Couldn't vote
- denied a
reasonable
education
- Laws
after end
of slavery
(1860)
- Unfair treatment
- 1919 - at least
70 blacks
lynched in the
Southern
states
- Police
tended to
turn a
blind eye
- Police
tended to
turn a
blind eye
- 360,000 black
soldiers served
in WWI but
returned to
racism
- Moved
north due
to racism,
bad living
conditions,
chronic
poverty,
post 1910
- Still unfair in North:
- poorly
paid jobs
- ghettos
- racial intolerance
- 1919 - Polish/Irish immigrants
attacked blacks in Chicago who
tried to use public facilities
- 1919 - Polish/Irish immigrants
attacked blacks in Chicago who
tried to use public facilities
- inferior education,
healthcare and housing
compared to whites
- First to
be laid
off in
bad
times
- poorly
paid jobs
- 1919 - at least
70 blacks
lynched in the
Southern
states
- Du Bois
- PhD at
Harvard but
unable to get a
job at a major
university
- Aware of the
divide despite
fairly happy
childhood
- Urged African-Americans
to fight back against
segregation
- Co-founded
Niagara
movement
- African-American
protest group of
professionals and
scholars
- African-American
protest group of
professionals and
scholars
- Among founders of NAACP
- Protest focussed on
securing anti-lynching
legislation
- Active in showing hardships
faced by African-Americans
to the UN
- Considered
himself a socialist
- PhD at
Harvard but
unable to get a
job at a major
university
- Marcus Garvey
- thought
African-Americans
should be proud
of their heritage
- Early life - launched
several businesses to
promote a separate
black nation
- Set up the
Universal Negro
Improvement
Association to
establish strong
connections
with Africa
- Other black rights
campaigners didn't
support Garvey's idea
of a separate Black
culture
- Ended
up being
deported
- idea passed on to
'Black is beautiful'
of the 1960s
- thought
African-Americans
should be proud
of their heritage
- The KKK
- Aimed to terrorise
black people newly
freed from slavery
- Revived in 1915 after film
showed in favourable light
- WASPs
fighting for
white
supremacy
- Against all
foreigners and
non-Protestants
- Reasons they
were supported
- Limited
employment
opportunities
supposedly
due to
immigrants
- Particularly
war veterans
returning from
WWI
- Particularly
war veterans
returning from
WWI
- Fear of black
migrants to cities
- 1920=100,000
1925=5,000,000
- They were anti-communist so fear from Red scare
- Limited
employment
opportunities
supposedly
due to
immigrants
- Aimed to terrorise
black people newly
freed from slavery
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