Impact of WWII on African-Americans
A mind map of some of the impacts WWII had on the civil rights movement and African-Americans.
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- Created on: 14-11-12 15:45
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- Impact of WWII
- Economic Power
- Whilst they still had a greater chance of employment, they still received less pay and white workers were hostile.
- Mobile, Alabama 1943, 12 blacks promoted caused a riot at the shipping company. 50 seriously inured in the subsequent riots.
- Sit ins an Boycotts
- 1942 James Farmer sets up CORE- Congress of Racial Equality.
- Sit in against segregated facilities.
- Migration
- Creation of more jobs in large cities and munitions factories.
- Over 500,000 moved from the South.
- Creation of more jobs in large cities and munitions factories.
- Proximity
- Did not live side by side happily, segregated schools.
- Blacks tended to flock in same area e.g. Harlem.
- Poor housing conditions and a cycle of poverty.
- Didn't like black men working with white women
- Federal Intervention
- FEPC 1943 - Fair Employment Practices Commisson set up by Roosevelt as only 10% blacks were employed in 1940.
- Black employment in aircraft factories and an increase of 25% in iron and steel industry.
- Supreme Court
- Smith V. Allright 1944: The number of potential black voters registered increased gradually.
- Black Consciousness
- NAACP members increased from 50,000 to 450,000.
- Separated regiments- navy desegregated in 1946.
- Double V campaign- fighting racism at home and abroad.
- Economic Power
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