to secure these rights
- Created by: Abigail Woosey
- Created on: 16-04-13 20:07
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- To secure these rights 1947
- He commissioned a presidents comity to produce a report on the experience of racial minorities in America
- highlighted enormous problems facing African Americans
- Lynching
- 1882-1945 over 300 in 5 southern states
- Police brutality
- frankly admitted that racist violence was widespread
- Barbaric practices: pistol whipping, beating prisoners and dragging them through public areas
- argued that police used many of these methods to admit crimes they hadn't done
- Barbaric practices: pistol whipping, beating prisoners and dragging them through public areas
- frankly admitted that racist violence was widespread
- Voting rights
- only 18% of black people in southern states had been able to vote in the 1944 election
- due to legal obstacles (grandfather clause)
- only 18% of black people in southern states had been able to vote in the 1944 election
- armed forces
- 1/70 black soldiers were promoted as officers whereas 1/7 white soldiers were
- in the navy 1/5,000 black officers and 1/7 white officers
- Employment and education
- 62% working black men employed in low-wage farming jobs
- only 28% of white men
- on average black workers received 47 cents and white workers 65
- Black highschool graduates earned $775 per year
- whereas white graduates earned $1,107
- 62% working black men employed in low-wage farming jobs
- He commissioned a presidents comity to produce a report on the experience of racial minorities in America
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