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| World War Two - Effects for black people in USA |
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Positive: - Large scale movement to USAs industrial centres, doubling wages
- Black soldiers posted to England realised they did not have to be treated so badly, making them fight harder for equality
Negatives: - Not allowed to combat in Marines until 1944
- Reffered to as mules by white soldiers
- Black nurses only allowed to tend black soldiers
- Given more dangerous jobs eg loading ammunition onto ships bound for war zones
- Only 56 black soldiers promoted to officer by the end of the war |
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Civil War ended in 1865 however still laws segregating black and white people, limiting black people's potential & promoting inequality in every way.
-30 states outlawed interracial marriage
- White primary permitted the democratic Party to prevent black people voting
- 8 states had poll tax to prevent poor black and white people voting, but then parties often paid white people's poll tax
- Also including several others for segregation, buses, public facilities, schools |
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August 1963. MLK organised and many non violent protest groups, SCLC, SNCC, CORE
Broadcast all over the world, the fact that racism is this much of an issue is embarrassing for President JFK
Black and white people converging peacefully put pressure to pass Civil Rights Bill |
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| Southern Christian Leadership Confrence |
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SCLC
Formed January 1957 by MLK
Trained activists in non-violent methods of protest |
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| Student Non-violent Coordination Committee |
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SNCC
Formed by Ella Baker who had previously had a director position in SCLC but lost her job.
Many women had high positions, unusual.
Mainly students, strongly involved with freedom rides and lunch-counter sit ins.
Rap Brown renamed the group the Student National Coordinating Committee in 1967 and supported violence.
Ended 1970, after becoming very innefective. |
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| Congress Of Racial Equality |
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CORE
Founded 1942
Give members training to ensure they stay safe.
Significant part of march on Washington
Largest Civil Rights organisation of the three, with members coming from all areas and all walks of life. |
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