Why was there so much racial inequality in the USA between 1929 and 1945?

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Why did the American Southerners want to keep slavery?
...because they were getting their work done for free
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What were the Jim Crow laws?
...the laws were that white and black people had to be seperate but equal
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Use your own knowledge to identify the types of places that were segregated in the South...
...segretgated places could be: theaters, launderettes, waiting rooms, toilets and/or diners
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How were black people in the South prevented from voting?
...before they could vote they had to pay off a poll tax which they could not afford. They was made to take a reading test, later they were then intimidated into not voting
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Describe the beliefs of the Ku Klux Klan...
...they believe that they were better than anyone who was not a white Anglo Saxon Protestant (white suprmecy)
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Describe other ways in which blacks were 'punished' by the KKK...
...being beaten, tarred threatned whipped or *****
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Explain which different groups of people that the Klan were against...
...the KKK were against anyone who wasnt a white Anglo Saxon Protestant so they targeted black immigrats, jews, catholics, communists and socialists
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What does the NAACP stand for?
...national assosiation for the advancement of coloured people
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What does the imagine on the crest of NAACP suggest about its aims?
The crest of the NAACP suggests that the blacks wanted equailty
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Explain what the NAACP campaigned for...
...the right to vote, to abolish segregation, to end lynchings and to get equal education and opportunities
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What were the Jim Crow laws?

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...the laws were that white and black people had to be seperate but equal

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Use your own knowledge to identify the types of places that were segregated in the South...

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How were black people in the South prevented from voting?

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Describe the beliefs of the Ku Klux Klan...

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