Southern Blacks in Late 1945
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- Southern Blacks in Late 1945
- Political Rights
- There were not voting rights for all
- Number of registered black voters was creeping up.
- Registering to Vote
- White registrars made it difficult and almost impossible for Blacks to register.
- In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks finally registered to vote in 1945
- Previous attempts were unsuccessful.
- White registrar claimed she 'failed' the literacy test.
- Previous attempts were unsuccessful.
- The South, with a high proportion of Blacks in its population, was represented by Whites.
- Employment
- Majority of Blacks had the most low-paid, menial jobs, partly because of their poor education in inferior, segregated schools, and partly because of discrimination.
- Black women - worked in domestic service, cleaning, cooking, and childminding for White families.
- Black men worked in hotels as bellhops, or collected city garbage.
- Blacks education and colour trapped many Southern Blacks in jobs that wasted their potential.
- Black soldiers found it very difficult to find jobs when returning back home due to the lack of job vacancies or respect and gratitude for their service.
- War demonstrated how Whites disliked working alongside Blacks.
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- Majority of Blacks had the most low-paid, menial jobs, partly because of their poor education in inferior, segregated schools, and partly because of discrimination.
- Segregation in daily life
- Would frequently face reminders of their legally enshrined social inequality
- 1945 - young MLK had just emerged from an inferior, segregated school in Atlanta, Georgia.
- MLK and his father were unable to sit alongside white people in Southern restaurants, cinemas or public transport.
- 1945 - young MLK had just emerged from an inferior, segregated school in Atlanta, Georgia.
- Would frequently face reminders of their legally enshrined social inequality
- Political Rights
- Legal position
- Southern Blacks in Late 1945
- Political Rights
- There were not voting rights for all
- Number of registered black voters was creeping up.
- Registering to Vote
- White registrars made it difficult and almost impossible for Blacks to register.
- In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks finally registered to vote in 1945
- Previous attempts were unsuccessful.
- White registrar claimed she 'failed' the literacy test.
- Previous attempts were unsuccessful.
- The South, with a high proportion of Blacks in its population, was represented by Whites.
- Employment
- Majority of Blacks had the most low-paid, menial jobs, partly because of their poor education in inferior, segregated schools, and partly because of discrimination.
- Black women - worked in domestic service, cleaning, cooking, and childminding for White families.
- Black men worked in hotels as bellhops, or collected city garbage.
- Blacks education and colour trapped many Southern Blacks in jobs that wasted their potential.
- Black soldiers found it very difficult to find jobs when returning back home due to the lack of job vacancies or respect and gratitude for their service.
- War demonstrated how Whites disliked working alongside Blacks.
- Untitled
- Majority of Blacks had the most low-paid, menial jobs, partly because of their poor education in inferior, segregated schools, and partly because of discrimination.
- Segregation in daily life
- Would frequently face reminders of their legally enshrined social inequality
- 1945 - young MLK had just emerged from an inferior, segregated school in Atlanta, Georgia.
- MLK and his father were unable to sit alongside white people in Southern restaurants, cinemas or public transport.
- 1945 - young MLK had just emerged from an inferior, segregated school in Atlanta, Georgia.
- Would frequently face reminders of their legally enshrined social inequality
- Political Rights
- Not protected by the Law
- Southern state laws made it difficult for Blacks to vote.
- Legally separate from Whites in public places
- Schools, Cafeterias, libraries, parks, beaches, buses and theatres.
- Judges, jurors, and LEO's were all white.
- Southern Blacks in Late 1945
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