Black American Civil Rights 1917-55- facts and statistics

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Share of Black Americans living in the South 1900
90%
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Share of Black Americans living in the South 1930
79%
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Plessy v Ferguson
1896
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No. of black Americans registered to vote Louisiana 1896
130,334
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No. of black Americans registered to vote Louisiana 1904
1,342
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No. of black men lynched in the South 1915-30
579
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No. of anti-black race riots 1919
25
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President Wilson introduces segregation in the White House and government offices
1913
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Black population in New York 1930
327,706
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Executive Order 8802
June 1941
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No. of black tenants pushed off land after AAA implemented
100,000
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Black Advisor elected to council of NYA (National Youth Administration)
Mary McLeod Bethune
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Establishment of NAACP
1910
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Executive Order 7027 (Resettlement Administration)
May 1935
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No. of black farmers helped by Resettlement Administration
3,400 out of 200,000
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A. Philip Randolph threatens 100,000-strong march on Washington
May 1941
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% of defence workers who were black 1942
3%
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% of defence workers who were black 1944
8%
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Truman creates President's Committee on Civil Rights
1946
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Executive Order 9981 (desegregates military under Truman)
July 1948
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Share of Black Americans living in the South 1930

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79%

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Plessy v Ferguson

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No. of black Americans registered to vote Louisiana 1896

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No. of black Americans registered to vote Louisiana 1904

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