619959
Race Issues in
America
1930-2000
- The American
Southerners wanted to
keep slavery because
the southern whites
depended on the black
slaves to work on the
cotton, tobacco and
sugar plantations
- The Jim Crow laws
were that
segregation
continued and black
Americans weren't
allowed to vote
- Some examples
of segregation
were buses, trains
and hospitals
- Black Americans in the
South were prevented
from voting, which
included making them
pay a poll tax or making
them pass a literacy
test
- Some examples
of segregation
were buses, trains
and hospitals
- The Ku Klux Klan
discriminated against black
Americans and anybody who
wasn't a White Anglo Saxon
Protestant (WASP) they
acted on their beliefs
because they wanted a
master race
- Was so
widespread
that most of
the south was
predominantly
racist and
prejudiced.
- Groups against the KKK were
those who weren't a WASP so
would've been people like black
Americans, Jews, immigrants,
homosexuals and communists
- Was so
widespread
that most of
the south was
predominantly
racist and
prejudiced.
- The Jim Crow laws
were that
segregation
continued and black
Americans weren't
allowed to vote
- Difficult to stop lynching
because the police and juries
were involved in the KKK and if
the members were identified
and arrested, the KKK would
brutally beat the "snitch"
- The NAACP campaigned for
the rights of black American's
using peaceful protests.
- It aimed to:
- Abolish segregation
- End lynchings
- Get black votes
- Get equal education opportunities
- Abolish segregation
- Many moved to the
North because they
had better rights and
ways of life
- It aimed to:
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