1947 To Secure These Rights
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- Created on: 03-05-17 10:51
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- 1947 To Secure These Rights
- In the South, the19th Century Jim Crow Laws had reinforced de jure segregation
- 14 million (10%) of African American's were affected by de jure segregation
- King was a teenager in Atlanta during this period
- Georgia had really bad segregation
- Education
- Water Fountains
- Buses
- Trains
- Toilets
- Few African Americans could vote in 1947
- 3% in 1940
- 12% in 1947
- White registrars made it more difficult for African Americans to vote
- They made them take impossible literacy tests that no one (not even white people) could pass
- Increased the polltax
- Rosa Parks had to pay $16.50 (a lot of money in 1947)
- Truman discussed returning black servicemen being attacked, but he never did anything baout it
- Life in the North was much better
- Great Migration during the 1st half of the 20th Century
- De facto segregation BUT they could sit anywhere on public transport
- WW2 had a massive impact on Civil Rights
- Migration= had greater concerns and concentrations of African Americans
- Service in the Armed Forces= Northern African Americans were stationed in the South which were where the Jim Crow Laws applied and they fought racism and fascism
- Proximity to Whites= violent clashes
- Roosevelt established FEPC and Core
- Aimed to abolish the poll tax
- Deep South acitivism
- Aimed at equality
- Aimed to eliminate segregation
- Aimed to create anti- lynching segregation
- Aimed to create voting rights law
- Aimed to create a permenent FEPC
- Aimed to end discrimination in interstate travel and the armed forces
- There was Civil Rights divisions in the Justice department
- Administrative supply for Civil Rights and Supreme Court disputes
- Estimated the use of American Commission on Civil Rights
- Congress were ignored BUT estimated a moral lead
- Executive Orders
- End of segregation in the armed forces
- Ensure fair employment
- CGCC= Committee on Government Contract Compliance
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