Race Relations in the USA 1945 - 1968
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Background
- Some attitudes of Black people in the 19th century was formed during the era of slavery. People thought that they were being lazy and untrustworthy
- In 1865, Slavery was abolished in America but there where sill a lot of segregation laws which were passed in the Southern States.
- These segregation laws were known as Jim Crow laws which discriminated against black people
- One million African Americans moved to the northern cities but also found racial discrimination here as well
What was the impact of World War 2 on African Americans?
- More than one million African Americans served in the military defeating Nazi Germany and to fight Nazi racism
- They felt they needed to have equality back home considering they were fighting racism and discrimination abroad.
Ku Klux Klan
- The KKK was originally formed in 1866 after slavery was abolished.
- They were a white supremisist group who wanted to keep African Americans inferior
- Had a resurgence of support in the 1920s with 5 million people being a Klan member in 1925
- After WWII when some African Americans were questioning laws against them, the membership of the KKK increased yet again.
- They would bomb African American houses and would lynch African Americans for tiny things
Brown vs Topeka Board of Education 1954
- In 1896 the US supreme court ruled that segregation would be legal AS LONG as the schools would be equal
- However most white schools were better funded
- The NAACP - National Assosiation for the Advancement of Coloured People was set up in 1911
- The NAACP had 450,000 members by 1945
- The NAACP had challenged the inequality of segregated schools and based their case in Topeka, Kansas
- Oliver Brown was concerned about his 7-year-old daughter's route to the black school in Topeka in which she had to cross a railyard in order to get to school.
- He wanted his daughter to the White school which was just around the block
- NAACP won the case and the judge ruled that segregation in schools was "unconstitutional" and in 1955 the supreme court ordered all states to desegregate their schools
- Many states moved slowly and little had happened by the end of 1957
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955-56
- In December 1955, Rosa Parks, an NAACP activist, refused to give her seat when…
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