Post-1955 Civil RIghts Organisations

Description

A level History Note on Post-1955 Civil RIghts Organisations, created by Beth Cowley on 10/06/2019.
Beth Cowley
Note by Beth Cowley, updated more than 1 year ago
Beth Cowley
Created by Beth Cowley over 5 years ago
2
0

Resource summary

Page 1

NAACP: National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People Founded = 1909 Aim = Legal and political equality Leaders = Du Bois (1909-1934), Walter White (1934-) Activities =  Worked with trade unionists, churches and white liberals Persuading anti-lynching bills 1934, 1935, 1938 bills all rejected by Southern Democrats Mobilised Southern blacks to campaign against the poll tax Worked through courts to challenge Plessey v Ferguson 1896

Page 2

UNIA: Universal Negro Improvement Association Founded = 1914 Leader = Marcus Garvey Aims = Black pride and separatism Activities =  Negro World had a circulation of over 100,000 Inspirational speeches from Garvey Collapsed after Garvey was deported in 1927

Page 3

CORE: Congress of Racial Equality Founded = 1942 Leader = James Farmer AIms = Black equality on an integrated society Activities =  More militant than NAACP Sit-ins in Chicago restaurants 'Freedom Rides' North/South border states Enforcing Supreme Court ruling of desegregation of interstate transport

Show full summary Hide full summary

Similar

Weimar Revision
Tom Mitchell
Hitler and the Nazi Party (1919-23)
Adam Collinge
History of Medicine: Ancient Ideas
James McConnell
GCSE History – Social Impact of the Nazi State in 1945
Ben C
Conferences of the Cold War
Alina A
Bay of Pigs Invasion : April 1961
Alina A
The Berlin Crisis
Alina A
Using GoConqr to study History
Sarah Egan
Germany 1918-39
Cam Burke
History- Medicine through time key figures
gemma.bell
The Weimar Republic, 1919-1929
shann.w