Race relations

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What are Jim Crow laws?
Segregation in churches, hospitals, theatres and schools between white people and black people, in the Southern States
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what is poll tax?
A tax had to be paid in order to be able to vote, and most black people were too poor to pay the tax.
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what are literacy tests?
In order to be able to vote, people had to prove that they could read difficult extracts. If black people passed these tests, they would then be threatened and attacked so that they would not vote.
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what is the KKK?
founded in 1866 by confederate soldiers. Most of its members were White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs) and wanted to show that they were better and more powerful than black people, immigrants, Jews, Roman Catholics, communists and socialists.
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when was the KKK banned and what happened after?
KKK was banned in 1872, it carried on illegally and was popular, including judges and politicians within its members.
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what was forced to shut down?
Schools for Black Americans
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what happened to black Americans if they gave evidence against a white person?
they would be threatened
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when was rosa parks/ Montgomery Bus Boycott
1955-1956
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why was Rosa Parks arrested?
Because she refused to give up her seat for a white person on a bus
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When was Rosa Parks arrested?
december 1st 1955
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what is the NAACP?
National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People
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Who was the NAACP led by?
Martin Luther King (MLK)
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Who organised the bus boycott?
Martin Luther King (MLK)
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what is poll tax?

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