Background to Key Topic 2: The Civil Rights Movement, 1945-62

For the A Divided Union? The USA 1945-70 edexcel gcse history exam

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Black Americans make up approximately what percentage of all US citizens?
12%
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Black Americans are descended from the slaves brought over from Africa to work the tobacco, cotton and sugar plantations. They were theoretically freed in what year?
1863
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In the ... black people had their own separate cafes, cinema, transport and toilets.
southern states in the USA
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What was the name of the state laws that prevented black people from voting and enforced separate and unequal schools?
Jim Crow Laws
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When was the NAACP founded?
1909
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What does the NAACP stand for?
the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People
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By ... the NAACP had 460,000 members, ... times its membership in 1940.
By 1946 the NAACP had 460,000 members, 10 times its membership in 1940.
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Black Americans are descended from the slaves brought over from Africa to work the tobacco, cotton and sugar plantations. They were theoretically freed in what year?

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1863

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In the ... black people had their own separate cafes, cinema, transport and toilets.

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What was the name of the state laws that prevented black people from voting and enforced separate and unequal schools?

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When was the NAACP founded?

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