Civil Rights Movements - African Americans

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Who was Booker T Washington?
Famous black American who advocated accepting segregation.
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What was the Great Migration?
Mass movement of black people north looking for jobs.
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Where was the Cultural Revolution?
Harlem - Harlem Renaissance.
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What did executive order 8802 do?
Banned discrimination in the defence industry.
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What was the impact of the New Deal?
Some black Americans were helped however the reality was that segregation was still prominent.
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What was the NAACP?
Established in 1910, organised many of the legal actions against segregation in the USA.
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Who was Thurgood Marshall?
First black American to ever serve the supreme court, argued Brown v Board education case, he took 32 cases and won 29 of the segregation cases.
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What was CORE
Congress of racial equality set up in 1942 to campaign for civil rights by non violent means.
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