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Position of Black Americans
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Edexcel iGCSE history
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black americans
gcse history
1920s usa
history
the usa, 1917-1929 (sources)
a-level
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Niamh MacElvogue
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Position of Black Americans
Jim Crow laws
Laws after end of slavery (1860)
Controlled black people's freedoms as the 41 state governments feared the growing power of black people
Segregated blacks from whites in schools, parks, hospitals, swimming pools, libraries and other public places
After WWI - extended to taxis and boxing matches
Couldn't vote
denied a reasonable education
Unfair treatment
1919 - at least 70 blacks lynched in the Southern states
Police tended to turn a blind eye
360,000 black soldiers served in WWI but returned to racism
Moved north due to racism, bad living conditions, chronic poverty, post 1910
Still unfair in North:
poorly paid jobs
ghettos
racial intolerance
1919 - Polish/Irish immigrants attacked blacks in Chicago who tried to use public facilities
inferior education, healthcare and housing compared to whites
First to be laid off in bad times
Du Bois
PhD at Harvard but unable to get a job at a major university
Aware of the divide despite fairly happy childhood
Urged African-Americans to fight back against segregation
Co-founded Niagara movement
African-American protest group of professionals and scholars
Among founders of NAACP
Protest focussed on securing anti-lynching legislation
Active in showing hardships faced by African-Americans to the UN
Considered himself a socialist
Marcus Garvey
thought African-Americans should be proud of their heritage
Early life - launched several businesses to promote a separate black nation
Set up the Universal Negro Improvement Association to establish strong connections with Africa
Other black rights campaigners didn't support Garvey's idea of a separate Black culture
Ended up being deported
idea passed on to 'Black is beautiful' of the 1960s
The KKK
Aimed to terrorise black people newly freed from slavery
Revived in 1915 after film showed in favourable light
WASPs fighting for white supremacy
Against all foreigners and non-Protestants
Reasons they were supported
Limited employment opportunities supposedly due to immigrants
Particularly war veterans returning from WWI
Fear of black migrants to cities - 1920=100,000 1925=5,000,000
They were anti-communist so fear from Red scare
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