Situation of Black people in the 1930s
- Created by: Katy **
- Created on: 17-04-14 10:13
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- 1930s
- Segregation & Jim Crow Laws
- Southern states
- every aspect of society
- blacks as "childlike & inferior"
- poor education
- poor
- no vote
- poll tax
- literacy texts
- Ku Klux Klan
- White Angelo-Saxon Protestant
- set up in 1865
- 1929-41
- 134 lynches
- 1924
- 5 million members
- 1930
- 30,000 members
- leader convicted of ****
- 30,000 members
- lynch
- march
- white masks
- National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People
- NAACP
- set up in 1909
- aims
- end segregation
- voting to increase
- stop lynching
- better education
- how
- legal action
- marches
- publish lynches
- 1930s-40s
- reduced lynches
- more voters
- 1930s
- Black Cabinet
- 45 advisers
- Black Cabinet
- 1936
- increase of blacks in local/state/federal office
- 1940s
- 100 blacks had federal government posts
- Depression
- Wall St Crash
- 29th October 1929
- mass unemployment
- whites - 1/4
- blacks - 1/2
- New Deal
- 1933-41
- President Roosevelt
- black history recorded in Library of Congress
- Norris
- can't live where built
- 1 million jobs
- kick start economy
- sharecroppers evicted
- Wall St Crash
- Poverty
- education
- poor
- low paid jobs
- left to work at crops
- poor
- migrated
- to North or West
- ghettos
- industrial boom of 1920s
- 1940
- 22% lived in North
- education
- Segregation & Jim Crow Laws
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