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Georgie Hartshorne

This document provides background information on Abraham Lincoln and the Reconstruction era following the American Civil War. It discusses key events and policies from Lincoln's presidency through the Johnson and Grant administrations, including the Emancipation Proclamation, the 13th and 14th Amendments, the Freedmen's Bureau, and the rise of Jim Crow laws in the South. It also examines the roles of Republican and Democratic politicians, the Radical Republicans in Congress, and prominent African American leaders during Reconstruction.

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KEY WORDS GROUP PRESIDENT PEOPLE LEGLISLATION Successes by 1877 Failures by 1877 Slavery is gone forever. Lacked land/capital/employment Freedom of: move/marry/vote/education/worship Banned from voting and political opportunities closed as segregation rose
President – 1860-65 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Born in Kentucky into moderate family. • Joined Republicans in 1856. • Opposed spread of slavery into west, but not calling for abolition. • President through Civil War, claiming the cause was secession of states until 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. 2) Situation: • AA’s made up 20% of population. • Slavery united diverse people. • North disputed slaveries morality. • Small number of AA’s lived in north as free citizens but were intimidated at voting stations, banned from TU’s and northerners owned slaves. 3) Civil War 1861-1865: • Abolition feelings grew in mid-19th century but it would require constitutional change. • President could not achieve this alone as he needed Congressional support – but southern states resisted. • Republicans formed in 1854 to oppose slavery. • Democrat party was split. • Climax arose over slaveries expansion into the west as Lincoln thought it would wean if contained in the south but south thought he was out to abolish it. • 1860 – southern states started succeeding from the Union to join the Confederacy (made up of 11 states who combined military power with own government system). 4) Emancipation Proclamation 1862: • Freed AA’s in Confederacy. • Slightly more slaves left plantations. • It was a political and tactile move; it satisfied antislavery northerners and took European support from the Confederacy. 5) 13th Amendment 1865: • Formally freed all slaves days before wars end. • Established de jure freedom and AA’s right to marry, worship, travel, become educated and travel. • Freed around 3.5 million AA’s, which created questions about how far this freedom would go. • Lincoln is assassinated that year and Johnson replaces him. 6) Situation in South: • AA’s had short term gains from Republicans but the long term gains were because of themselves. • South remained devastated: buildings, roads, railways, churches and schools were ruined/derelict. • Slaves were vital to south; would need to change.
President – 1865-69 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Huge questions surrounding AA’s rights and their implementation. • 1865-1877 - Reconstruction was enforced on south which they resented and AA rights dwindled. • Johnson and Congress continued to clash. 2) Changes in law: • 14th Amendment 1868 – all AA’s got citizenship and equal protection under the law. • Civil Rights Act 1866 – (excluding NA) gave all races citizenship. • Military Reconstruction Act 1967 – divided south into military districts ruled by northern Army Generals. • 15th Amendment 1870 – forbade denial of vote. 3) Reconstruction: • Wanted to readmit south into the union (was a southerner) with pre-war relations quickly to gain southern supporters. • Issued 1000’s of pardons to rebels so rich plantation owners could assert their authority. • Though he begrudgingly supported the 13th, he said nothing of AA’s CRs and allowed the Black Codes. • Majority of northerners saw political advantage in crushing south and enfranchising AAs (they would obviously vote Republican). • Could not stop Congress’s Amendments but could veto legislation (which were overridden with 2/3rds majority in Congress). 4) Impeachment 1868: • A trial of an authoritative figure for a serious offence and the only way to remove a President. • House of Representatives is a prosecutor and the Senate jury. • Came when Johnson dismissed his successful War Secretary. • Was acquitted by one vote but weakened and allowed Republicans to rule for the rest of the year before not re-running at the election. 5) Land Problems: • After Emancipation Proclamation, many AA’s had same lives, just with (little) pay because of lacking education. • Most turned to sharecropping. • Vision of ’40 acres and a mule’ but failed – Johnson's amnesties meant that only 800,000 acres were ever available and that was taken back because of South's poorness (1/3 mules dead and 50% of machinery gone because of the war). • Land owners rose rent on sharecroppers and the crop-lien system encouraged cotton which weakened race relations. 6) Black Codes 1865: • Varied state by state but all stated that: • A ‘negro’ had more than or 1/8th black blood. • Inter-racial marriages were allowed but mixed were annulled. • Property could be owned. • Legal rights were limited. • AA’s could testify but not against whites or serve on juries. • No vote. • Segregated schools. • Pre-emptied formal segregation for the 80/90s.
1) Background: • 1854: formed as an anti- slavery party and supported Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. • After the war and Lincoln’s death, they argued over harshness of South's punishments to create the Radical Republicans and Republicans. 2) Reconstruction: • Felt the south should be controlled from the north (different to Johnson’s views that the south should regain their pre-war power). • Fear that Johnson’s plan would cause the south to remain the same after reconstruction. • Had help from ‘American Dream’ ideologies; all should have the chance to live it - for which AAs would need full CRs. 3) Impeachment 1868: • Johnson kept vetoing AA CR bills, but after impeachment, RR now had more control over Reconstructions direction. 4) Waning support: • With the deaths of Stevens in 1868 and Sumners in 1974, two leading RR, support waned. • This left the south unsupervised and segregation rose. • Hayes (Republican leader) agreed to the 1877 Compromise which won them the election but removed northern control in the south – ending reconstruction. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
1) Thaddeus Stevens 1792-1868: • Important member. • Elected to House of Representatives in 1848. • Took a hard line against southern states as he regarded them as conquered provinces. 2) Blanche K. Bruce 1841-98: • Background - In 1869, 700,000 AAs were enrolled to vote; a major role in Convention elections (to chose party leaders). • This achieved equal AA CR by 1868. • AAs now had real power with support from scalawags (sympathetic southerners) and carpetbaggers (northerners in the south). • AAs were benefiting from RR policies but real power was limited with an unproportional election rate. • 95% still lived in south until 1877 and northern rights remained theoretical. • Politics – 1870 – 22 AAs in Congress, 20 in HoR and 2 in Senate. • Bruce – 1875-81; sat in Senate. • First AA to have prominent political career but lacked mass support so did not advance AAs in general. • Born into slavery in Virginia, became a landowner and Republican politician. • On many committees and had some support to run for Vice President in 1888. 3) Frederick Douglass 1817-1895: • An escaped slave and Anti- Slavery Society activist with a newspaper. • Leading opponent of slavery before the war. • Refused an offer to run Freedmen's Bureau because of disapproval of Johnson. • Spoke/took tours arguing for CRs. • Lacked before war impact. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
1) Background: • Apart from voting/a few politicians, most AAs had no political role. • Most were technically free but homeless/unemployed. • Set up by federal government to aid AAs in finding homes/employment and providing food, education and medicine with Congressional funding. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 2) General Howard 1830-1909: • Surprising success under Howard who was noted for his military success in the war with one arm and a genuine interest in AAs welfare. • Supported universities and created the University of Washington to further advance AAs – it trained future lawyers/scientists/teachers • Was only the minority: 1890, 95% of AA school age children were illiterate compared to 15% of white. 3) End: • Decline of RR at end of Reconstruction in Congress in 1872 was a sign that the north were losing interest. • AAs were left to poverty because of poor education and no de facto CRs. • Some moved to southern cities but numbers remained small. • Housing remained primitive and educational support was withdrawn at the Bureau’s end. • Fear of violence was high.
President – 1869-77 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • White southerners couldn’t see AAs as equals and used ‘state rights’ to ignore federal freedoms. • 1873 Slaughterhouse Case – ruled that citizens rights were under state control, not federal as the constitutional changes protected AAs individual rights but not CRs. • Grant broadly accepted early Reconstruction policies from RR and promised to help AAs in his 2nd term but financial scandals decreased his authority. 2) Democrats in the South: • South voted Democrats because they blamed Republicans for them losing the war. • This power was set to fall now AAs were enfranchised (they would likely vote Republican) so they began stopping them voting. 3) Grant’s 2nd term: • North hold on south loosened and Freedman's Bureau ended and federal control withdrew. • Deaths of RRs meant no one cared. • Many states had ‘redemption governments’ instead of northern control and north lost interest now slavery had ended. • Grants scandals and carpetbaggers reputation encouraged northern ideals of withdrawing that originated from decentralisation policies. • 1875 Civil Rights Act – CR applied to public places in an attempt to stop segregation but was ruled unconstitutional in 1883. • 1876 US vs. Cruikshank – Louisiana riot that left 70 AA/2 whites dead and 100 whites arrested caused a Supreme Court ruling that released them on the verdict that Enforcement Act only applied to states, not individuals.
CIVILIAN GROUP KKK 1920’s revival 1) Background: • Segregation was de facto, but was becoming de jure with educational segregation an insight to white mentality (AAs corrupting white children and unable to appreciate such high teaching levels). • AAs relied on places of worship to escape and that became the place for most campaigners and self-help groups. 2) Nathan Forrest: • Created the KKK to use terror not encouragement to enforce segregation in 1965, Tennessee. • Opposed enfranchised AAs voting Republican to guarantee white supremacy as their domination was ‘God given’. • Violence to AAs/supporters was unprecedented and although this wave dwindled quickly, the terror remained. • Example: • Memphis 1866; 3 days of violence after AA/white carriage crash. Ended with 46 dead and 5 raped. • New Orleans 1867: attack on AA voters. Ended with 34 dead and 100 injured.
KEY WORDS GROUP PRESIDENT PEOPLE LEGLISLATION Successes by 1915 Failures by 1915 Changes in education did increase for AA Equal opportunities in education/courts never existed AAs still free to leave and did so more Segregation was become more formal TI improved economic prospects for AAs Violence/lynching as common CR movement had began by end - NAACP Vote was still non-existence
1) Background: • Reconstruction ended in 1877 and for AAs; poverty was the norm, south was decreasing their CR and increasing segregation. • Sharecropping was common and masters preferred labour intensive crops so AAs did not benefit from the diversification of southern farming and suffered from boll weevils in 1892 that killed crops. • Slow movement towards AAs owning land; by 1910, 25% owned land but it was not helpful to CR as they had to concentrate on surviving. • 90% still lived in the south in 1900, decreasing by 1% since 1870. • Segregation created self-help groups and parallel businesses (hairdressers) which created an AA middle class. • Ghetto’s developed in the north which had no legal segregation but strong discrimination and poor quality of life but strong black culture was developing. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 2) Jim Crow: • Character in 19th century act. • Term became offensive as it was the stereotypical view of AAs. • Became a description of southern discriminative laws. 3) Development: • Crow laws rapidly developed between 1887 and 1891 when 8 states introduced segregation in trains, waiting rooms, school and (by 1891) all public places (parks, cinemas, baseball teams). • Lower class whites feared that AAs would take jobs and Social Darwinism reinforced hierarchical ideals.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT States in 1920’s 1) Background: • Enfranchised AAs were voting Republican in the segregated south in the 1880’s. • Their psychological inability to see AAs as equal/traitors rose tensions further. • The 1870 15th Amendment forbade discrimination of voters because of race, not gender/wealth. 3) Additional voting requirements: • Poll Tax – had to make payment well before voting. • Property qualifications – had to own property to vote. • 1880 Literacy tests – recite/interpret sections of Constitution. Harder tests for AAs. • Grandfather clause – only vote if grandfathers had. • By 1910, AA voting had ended in south. • Encouraged by the 1898 Mississippi vs. Williams which ruled the changes constitutional. 4) Lynching: • Southern states did nothing/encouraged mobs of white men attacking, beating and then killing southern AAs, mainly on calls of rape of white girls. • Cases were rarely brought to court and if they were, all-white juries did not convict. • Heightened fear for the whole AA community. 2) 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson: • Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation on railway carriages was constitutional as facilities were SEPARATE BUT EQUAL. • Acted as legal precedent to extend segregation to all areas of public life. • Allowed 1899 Cummings vs. Education to rule that segregated schools were constitutional, even though more money was spent on white schools.
President – 1885-89 and 1893-97 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Affirmed CR of all citizens in his inaugural address but allowed south to continue – boasted having never shared a table with an AA. • Even Republicans/Congress did not interfere in honouring the 1877 Compromise. • Views reinforced by Supreme Court Rulings; 1898 Mississippi vs. Williams made denials of votes constitutional.
CIVILIAN GROUP 1) Background: • Believed aspects of American society (e.g. corruption of rich) needed reformation. • However, did little for AAs struggle. • Showed the North's disinterest in AAs now they were ‘free’. • Supported by President Roosevelt.
President – 1901-09 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Showed a passing interest in AAs. • Discussed problem with BTW. • Vice President in 1900 after President McKinley’s assassination. • Supported the Progressive Movement. • Did not really address the AAs problems. • Criticised by supremacists for approving of BTW.
President – 1909-12 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Largely followed on with Roosevelt's policies. • Style seemed dull and lacking of Roosevelt's political skills. • Took little interest in AA rights and he saw it is state jurisdiction.
President – 1912-21 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Held typically racist views as he was Southern born. • He dismissed all AAs and stopped association with their leaders. • He appointed segregationist southerners who segregated employees by race in government agencies. 2) End: • By final years, he was broken and sick and so replaced by Warren Harding
CIVILIAN CAMPAIGNER 1) Background: • 1880-1910 was the height of the lynching campaign after the war and Reconstruction, mainly on AA men. • Usually accused of a crime (rape of white women) that had to ‘dealt’ with there and then wit no time for courts. • Regarded as a public event with women and children attending. • States and police did not interfere. • Never reached court as white juries would not convict. 2) Wells’ opposition: • Challenged two lynching myths; 1. That lynching was because of rape. 2. White female innocence. • Had to move from Memphis to New York to escape violence where she expressed her views in New York Age (newspaper) and the newly formed 1896 National Association of Colored Women. • Because of the reform atmosphere in the north, she received some sympathy but failed to gain Congressional/Presidential support for anti-lynching laws so cases could reach federal courts and bypass more bias south state courts. • The southern defence that it would interfere with state rights always prevailed. 3) Southern fear: • Obsession with white/black rape was revealing white fear of a mulatto nation, destroying segregation. • With segregation/voting, miscegenation laws also arose. • Leasing of prisoners by bankrupt governments was a hold on slavery.
1) Background: • Recognised that CR would have to wait until they had developed a community. • Born into slavery and of mixed race, benefited from education after EP. • So honoured, he set out to spread this to his people – taught at Tuskegee Institute from 1881. • Good at administration, leadership and had vision • Personal morality heighted and encouraged at TI. • Coincided with segregation – felt options were: 1. Go back to Africa (quickly rejected) 2. Assimilate (even less plausible; South’s hostility) 3. Move to North (rapidly industrialising but not the answer – whites preferred Europeans) 4. AAs should become skilled before demanding. • Therefore, TI focused on literacy/maths/practical skills rather than intellectual with good teachers to get basic jobs that would lead to change. CIVILIAN CAMPAIGNER 2) 1895 Atlanta Speech: • Argued that if whites viewed AAs as economic partners and not political opponents, tensions would diffuse but segregation would continue for now so they must focus on education/economic opportunities and not campaigning for equality. • Instant impact; ideas became known as Atlanta Compromise (AAs reach an accommodation (would compromised) with whites) • 6 months after Douglass’s death (who had toned down in waning years and not led any prominent protests) and with no other AA leader, it shot BTW into AA leadership. • Long term impact: gained interest of TR, who consulted him on AA questions and invited him for tea at the White House. • 1900 – organised the Negro Business League to be national AA chamber of commerce. • Autobiography; ‘Up from slavery’ furthered fame 3) Criticisms: • Seemed to accept white supremacy and did not challenge inequality, lynching and played down importance of vote. • Despite his effort, educational gap widened further after 1900 with funding differences. • William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963), the 1st AA to gain a PhD from Harvard in 1895 was an early sociologist who helped fund the 1905 Niagara Movement and the 1909 NAACP, but moved away from this and was arrested as a communist in the McCarthy era, turned communist and moved to Ghana (61). • Claimed that BTW limited/endangered the future of AAs as his ideas were necessary but were wrong as a basis for AA CRs as it did not mention segregation or defanchisation. • Hurt, BTW resorted to petty rebuttals but his followers remained numerous. • In later years, he realised his campaign was not working. • Gave money to individual segregation challengers and encouraged others to publish articles on AA CR progression. 4) Successes: • Career from slave to Collage Principle was inspiring. • Set strict behavioural standards that helped students. • From 1895 he was the main leader/spokesman for AAs. • Created valuable political links for future AAs. • Long term aim was to show whites that AAs could be equal if they learnt practical skills. 5) Failures: • Seemed to accept low AA position. • Tried to work in the system, not change it. • Did not focus on the vote. • After 1905, leadership was questioned by AAs. • Not effective as he didn’t change law and paranoia over critics.
CIVILIAN GROUP 1) Background: • BTW was criticised by writers like W.E.B. and William M. Trotter 1872-1934 (born into middle class AA family, an academic at Harvard that planned a career in international banking but abandoned it because of prejudice. A newspaper writer, he was arrested for heckling a BTW speech as he wanted more vigorous protests). • They helped create the Niagara Movement in Canada which aimed to radically change the welfare policies of AAs. • Wanted a campaign to restore voting rights/abolish discrimination/CRs. 2) Impact: • Would never be a mass movement as they did not relate to normal AAs with their academic approach. • BTW would likely become too confrontational. • Lacked money/effective organisation/achieve little. • Superseded by development of NAACP but did underline key beliefs about AA legal/employment/educational equality. • Supported AA women/backed suffrages. • Demanded end to racist convict leasing.
CIVILIAN GROUP NAACP in 40s NAACP SC cases by 41 NAACP IN 1945-55 1) 1908 Springfield Riot: • Serious race riot in Illinois which began over rape allegations. • Police refused to hand over AA – white residents rioted/attacked/burned AA homes/businesses. • Most AAs fled the city. • 84 year old AA Donnegan was lynched over the crime of being married to a white women for 32 years. • Not the violence that caused change, but location – Lincoln lived/died there and Donnegan was rumoured to be his shoe maker. 2) Impact: • As a direct response, Du Bois teamed up with other prominent AA leaders at the New York National Conference of the Negro to form first proper, national AA CR organisation. • They issued a passionate enunciation of this treatment. • Du Bois was eager (unlike Trotter) for white members as he was convinced that the scientific community were realising racial superiority was stupid and the group gained many supporters of both races. • It remained a peaceful and Constitutional organisation. • Successes were not spectacular but important in the long-term. 3) NAACP operation: • Aim was to investigate then publicise racism, then make legal solutions to enforce the law/Constitution to ensure CRs. • Adopted a constitutional approach to lawsuits as though persecution was against constitutional amendments. • BACK BY SUPREME COURT: Guinn vs. US stated that the Grandfather clause was unconstitutional. 4) 1911 Nation Urban League: • Early NAACP successes inspired development of the NUL to focus on AA welfare in north. • Although not a CR campaign group/no southern power, the NUL did campaign against housing/job discrimination. 5) Du Bois: • Despite Du Bois, most early NAACP leaders were white which lead to race-cooperation questions which continued into the 1960s. • Played crucial role by editing magazine for 20+ years to increase awareness.
KEY WORDS GROUP PRESIDENT PEOPLE LEGLISLATION Successes by 1941 Failures by 1941 North were rejecting racist views Despite White/NAACP, success was limited No charismatic leader had emerged to replace Garvey. Congress, SC and Presidents showed little interest. Though slow, NAACP was having an impact Education still poor with funding low Still largely excluded from voting in south, allowing all-white juries to avoid AA justice Lynching had declined, but fear remained AAs had role in sports/TV/ middle-class Housing remained primitive/segregated Poverty was endemic in AA communities and employment was discriminative De jure segregation was enforced in south by white Democrats who played the race card Whites seemed determined to keep supremacy ‘state rights’ were still used to enforce segregation
1) Pull of north/Push of south: • Number of AAs heading north during and after WWI rose significantly. • Even before joining in 1917, war had impact because of decreasing number of European immigrants workers and weapons industry exploded. After the war, numbers continued to grow because of demands of US economy for workers in 1920s. • South encouraged move with segregation, inequality, disfranchise and violence. Sharecroppers remained poor/attacked by boll weevil. • Heard stories of northern AAs with better lives but refused to go into the melting pot. 2) AA WWI soldiers: • 350,000 served, with 40,000 in active service and 1,300 officers. • Half drafted to France in segregated regiments and did awesomely (none ever convicted of disloyalty during war). • The experience broadened horizons on inequality which stimulated campaigns 3) WWI end: • White soldiers returned to find no jobs (taken by AAs). • Produced brief but intense tension causing race riots in Chicago (teenager accidently drifted onto white only beach; stoned and drowned to death. 13 days of violence insured when Irish/Polish attacked AA ghetto’s; 23 AA/15 white dead and 1000s homeless. • Ghetto’s rapidly developed as laws forbade AAs from moving from where they originally settled because of fears over riots – ended freedom of movement. 4) Northern AAs: • Though different from south, CRs were blocked. • Ghettos caused de facto school segregation because of population patterns which were under funded/staffed. • Discrimination in work, mainly clerical/skilled jobs. • BUT – no lynching. If AAs on voting register, they could be jurors. Trials were fairer. • Institutional racism was weaker but still segregation/discrimination/poverty. 5) 1920s Jazz era: • De facto segregation encouraged developing culture. • Outpouring of writers/poets/musicians/painters. • Many talented AAs were discovered in the poverty of Harlem and so the era became the Harlem Renaissance – AAs expressing their equality desires in songs and writing. • Even this showed de facto inequality – whites owned the jazz clubs and the only AAs allowed in were performers, prostitutes and cooks. • AA middle-class developed – more AA businesses/professional than ever. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
CIVILIAN CAMPAIGNER 1) Garvey state-side (1916): • He exploited WWI social changes briefly and efficiently after arriving from Jamaica • Rapidly gained dynamic followers within a year but downfall was just as fast. • Main AA leader for those years and although his policies did not have immediate affects, they shaped next generation of campaigners by creating ‘Black Power’. 2) Ideals: • Inspired by BTW’s TI, he created the 1914 Universal Negro Improvement Association in Jamaica to go further than BTW and improve economic prospect/white acceptance/AAs taking control of problems. • Saw the only solution to move back to Africa but was vague on details. Short term, believe AAs should focus on building education/businesses/pride in being AAs. 3) UNIA: • Aim; to campaign for equal rights and the independence of AAs rather than absorption into melting pot. • Did not ask for government help, but told AAs to develop their own means of salvation through self-help groups/own industries/factories. 4) Why successful: • In tense atmosphere, his movement made progress. • His 1917 Harlem speech was cheered and he moved his base to NY. • Made use of growing interest in AA newspapers to laugh ‘The Negro World’, funded by northern AA middle-class. • Talented speaker. • Aided by BTWs death and post-war tensions. • Idea that AAs had to be proud of heritage appealed to ghetto AAs as they could relate. • Disagreed with Du Bois that integration would work which also appealed to poor AAs who felt true equality would never happen. • Black Eagle Star Steamship line (4 ships) to raise capital was popular but then became broke. 5) Why failure: • Lacked political strategy/more bothered with fancy ventures than immediate social and economic problems. • Ran out of money. • As immediate post-war tensions calmed, so did support. • Suspicion increased when he talked to the KKK in 1922 and colleague (Easton) was murdered soon after. • ‘Garvey Must Go’ – attack in popular magazines. AA TU/NAACP opponents created Friends of Negro Freedom to highlight his failures. • Arrested in 1925 and deported in 1929 on release back to Jamaica – leaving AA CR behind.
CIVILIAN GROUP NAACP beginning NAACP SC cases by 41 NAACP IN 1945-55 1) Background: • Southern AAs were to busy surviving to become campaigners and didn’t have the skills because of poor education. • Whites were worried that northern campaigners would pass federal anti- lynching laws which they would have to obey. • Growing AA middle-class got opportunity for AA lead mass movement and Oscar de Priest was the 1st AA to be elected into Congress since 1900 in 1928, but he was alone. 2) Post-war impact: • NAACP embodied AA campaigning after Garvey’s arrest. Led by both races, was a more vigorous legal campaign that BTW’s. • National, it focused on CR not social conditions • 1920s Secretary (James Johnson) targeted changes in desegregation, voting and education; continued by 1930s leader Walter White. 3) Policies: • Races should live/work/be educated together. Would take federal/Supreme Court rulings to make changes. • Non-violent, raising money to defend accused AA rioters. • Lobbying, not mass action. Campaigned unsuccessfully for anti- lynching laws but it did raise awareness nationwide and decreased lynching. • Growth rose rapidly after 1915 – by 1920, it has 90,000 members but that decreased to 50,000 in 1930. • Developed reputation of caution and bureaucratic outlook. • Run by middle-class and so failed to relate to working class 4) North situation: • Opposition was normally peaceful in north, but whole southern population was violent towards it, discouraging leaders from speaking out. • Its only successes were winning court cases; in the tragedy of Arkansas 1919, after 2 white men where shot in discussions, mobs of whites attacked the AA community and all AAs were arrested/killed (death toll from 20-250). NAACP appealed to SC to overrule convictions.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • After WSC 1929 and decline of UNIA, CR action was low. • Communists showed new militant approach rapidly for a short period to take advantage of labour unrest between 1919-21. • Recruited 7,000 homeless/unemployed northern or poor sharecropping southern AAs. • Organised legal defence for Scottsboro Boys trial. • Membership rose in 1934 when ordered by Soviet Union to fight against Fascism. 2) Successes: • CR leaders distanced themselves from fear of prejudice by association (particular during post-WWII McCarthyism). • Many saw their rejection of democracy and Soviet alliance as un-American. • In 1939 when the Soviets approved of the Hitler-Stalin pact, their limited power ended.
CIVILIAN GROUP 1) Background: • Influenced by Communist from start. • Boycotts of discriminating shops failed to gain mass support. • Pressure group to ensure AAs got their side of the New Deal 2) Successes: • After a well-supported start, it lost support because of its close Communist ties and became limited to Communist support. • Disbanded in 1947.
CIVILIAN GROUP KKK beginning 1) Background: • Showed southern attitudes to AAs. • Revival in 1915 in Atlanta, Georgia by William Simmons 1880-1945 (followed old Klan ideas but did introduce new features like burning crosses as a sign of KKK activity). • Communist growth aided revival. • 1915 film The Birth of a Nation glorified old Klan and presented a brutal stereotype of AAs. • 1922 – Hiram Evans 1881- 1966 (widened target of hatred to other races/religions that were not White Anglo-Saxon Protestants) took over. • Created view of AAs as pitiable creatures, who’s threat level was less that Catholics/Jews/Communists. • Split Democrat Party in south. 2) Support: • North: group remained shady and had limited support. • South: its views on capitalism, religion and ‘traditional’ American virtues increased its membership to over 5 million by 1924 from 100,000 in 1921. • Hooded members openly paraded, burned crosses, intimidated, beat, mutilated and murdered victims. • 1930 – 30,000 members remained as segregation/white way of life went unthreatened.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT States in 1800s 1) Background: • Majority of white southern politicians neither supported AAs or the KKK. • Democrat states intended to maintain the status quo (hohohoooooo stick to the stuff you knowwww): 1. Segregation 2. Cheap AA labour 3. White electorate suspicion of federal intervention 4. White supremacy. 4) Support: • No doubting that Bilbo and Talmadge had support because of their re-election successes, but apart from Governor of Louisiana (Harry Long) all had to play race card to undereducated, racist whites to gain support. 2) Theodore Bilbo 1877-1947 • was born into poor family, became Mississippi Governor 1916-1920 and 1928-1932 and a Senator afterwards until death. • Violently opposed any AA voters, hinting to what should be ‘done’ to them • Dubbed ‘America’s most notorious merchant of hatred’. • Suggested all AAs go back to Africa. 3) Eugene Talmadge 1884-1946: • Came from farming family and wrote agricultural journals. • Governor of Georgia from 1940-1942 and 1946-1946 (dies) • Similar to Bilbo and attacked integrated education. 5) Situation by 30s Depression: • Just before, educated opinion dismissing supremacy was rising, but depression stalled CR ideas. • P vs. F 1896 still very much in place and facilities were still not equal – for every $7 spent on white schools in 1930, only $2 went to AA schools.
President – 1921-23 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Thought that southern states must have ‘superior understanding’ to the problem, a clear sign he would not intervene.
President – 1923-29 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Early on, he declared that the CR of AA were as ‘sacred’ as whites. • But took a passive view and let Congress take the initiative.
President – 1929-32 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Was his attempt to appoint a racist Supreme Court Judge that the NAACP managed to appose in 1930. • Resorted to the race card to convince Democrats of his Republican strategies – obviously failed. • Last Republican to receive wide AA support for presidency because he was a knob.
President – 1932-44 (re-elected 3 times) FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Previous presidents were indifferent, incompetent, preoccupied and powerless to the Democratic Congress men who would oppose pro-AA legislation. • However, he was preoccupied with ‘saving America’ – in which he could not include AAs because of Democrat opposition. 2) Support for AAs: • Frankly told NAACP leader White in 1933 that he could not involve AAs in his New Deal (initiative to increase America’s economy after 1929 WSC) if it was to be passed though Congress. • If insisted on the AA problems, he would lose Democratic support. • AAs plight received more support from Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 (cousin and wife to FDR) who became aware of problems after touring the nation as First Lady. She publicly supported the NAACP’s Anti- Lynching Bill 1930s to FDR’s embarrassment. 3) New Deal: • Encouraged a wage rise and cutting of working hours. • By 1935, 30% of AA families were on benefits compared to 10% of whites – illustrating their poverty and the fair split of federal funding. • However, urban AA unemployment rates remained high and sharecroppers were hit hard by Depression (not covered by the Social Security Act or the National Labour Relations Act that helped whites because of Democrats refusal to vote for pro-AA legislation) 4) Individual Help: • Supported the 1941 Philip Randolph demand for fair employment opportunities by issuing his Executive Order to ban discrimination in workplaces. • Set up the Fair Employment Practices Commission to implement this.
1) Background: • Limited progress was being made for acceptance of AAs in sports. • Owens won 4 gold medals in the 1936 Olympics and challenged the ideas of white supremacy. • After success, he received advertising endorsements like white athletes. • Awarded American Medal of Freedom by President Ford in 1976. CIVILIAN CAMPAIGNER 2) Hattie McDaniel: • First AA to win an Oscar for Gone with the Wind in 1940. • Encouraged racial marches; E. Roosevelt withdrew her support from Daughter of the Revolution after they banned AA Marian Anderson (who was also banned from singing in Constitution Hall) and multi-racial crowds began attending Anderson’s concert at Lincoln Memorial.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT NAACP 1 + 2 1) Positives: • With federal, executive and legislative routes for AA CR blocked, NAACP turned to SC. • Lengthy, but it worked. • Since Reconstruction, SC ruling had not helped CRs apart from some early successes (1917 Buchanan vs. Warley – Kentucky residential segregation was unconstitutional but the judgment was on property rights which would not allow precedent for overturning segregation in public places). • Another positive ruling was the 1923 Moore vs. Dempsey, which failed to uphold the death sentences for 12 AAs because of unfair trials. 2) Support: • 1933 Trudeau vs. Barnes ruled that all other options must be ruled out before a case was brought to the SC – showing NAACP’s slowness. • Old judges were dying off and FRD was appointing more liberal ones – between 1937-1941, 7/9 died. Verdicts showed this change: • 1938 Gaines vs. Canada ruled that separate facilities must really be EQUAL (subsequently rose AA teachers salaries to 80% that of whites) • However, 15th (voting) was continually not enforced – showing the importance of SC rulings.
KEY WORDS GROUP PRESIDENT PEOPLE LEGLISLATION Successes by 1965 Failures by 1965 MLK’s and others (Shuttlesworth/Baker) leadership rose AA confidence to protest Cold War fear of Communism was hard on supporters who were prosecuted Success of NAACPs legal tactic lead to favourable SC rulings Most presidents were still fearful of southern power Increasing federal support (especially LBJ) Public sympathy from white northerners because of medias increase rose mass support Poor tactics of southerners (violence) played into campaigners hands.
1) Impact: • AA immigration increased dramatically, with the number of AAs in San Fran increasing from 4,800 in 1940 to 32,000 in 1945. • This caused tensions and violence to rise – resulting in the 1943 Detroit riot (after an AA ‘raped and murdered’ a white women. 25/34 of the dead and most of the 1,600 arrested were AAs) • Also work tensions – if AAs were promoted, whites would walk out (as it Mobile, Alabama 1943) 2) AA WWII soldiers: • Brought its own tension/reinforced segregation. • Red Cross forced to segregate AA/white blood. • Long term positives; 100,000 AAs were sent to England – experienced more equality. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 2) Irony: • Irony of fighting Nazi fascism while oppressing own people. • CR campaigners emphasised difference and fought for fully AA CRs. • Fought by groups such as Congress of Racial Equality, set up by James Farmer in 1942 to protest against formal Northern segregation (split in 1966 over BP and after Farmer’s resignation, it became more moderate) [CORE in 60].
1) Background: • Period after 1945 with high capitalist/communist tensions. • Although no formal war was ever declared, the threat of nuclear retaliation was very real until 1980s. • Meant that any radical party/attempt to change system was questioned – affecting CRs as they showed sympathy towards communism and criticised the establishment. • Campaigners such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Adam Powell (first AA House of Representatives elective who challenged de facto Northern segregation but had no mass support) and groups such as the NAACP were communist suspects (despite White being very anti- communist). • Meetings were made illegal and then they were forced to fight expensive legal battles which lost campaigning money. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 2) Impact: • Wartime Soviet propaganda and irony of fighting Nazi fascism had rose profile/support for AAs CR • How could they fight for freedom while oppressing own people? • McCarthyism (post-war communist fear. J. R. McCarthy’s ruthless assault on communism lead to 200 charges in 1950 on members of the D.C. State Department. Discredited by 1954 as accusations became wild.) discredited CORE because of their direct style. AA oppression played down in favour of legal and political ones that appealed to American values/constitution • Explains why the movement failed when fighting for better housing/employment; seemed to question Constitutional rights of property/factory owners.
President – 1944-53 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Served as a Democratic Senator 1935-1944, then became Roosevelt’s Vice. • Authorised atomic bomb on Japan in 1945. • ‘Fair Deal’. 2) AA help: • Used his authority as Commander-in-Chief of Army to end military segregation in 1948. • Commissioned a President’s Committee in CRs in 1946 - committee that reported directly to him on AA welfare/how to gain their equality in a peaceful way. Included TU leaders, churches and teachers but not CR activists. Issued a report in 1947 after interviewing 250 people; ‘To Secure These Rights’. • Identified major CR problems. 3) Impact: • Created opinion that changed climate so as future changes were welcomed but did not create any legislation as was always blocked by Congress.
CIVILIAN GROUP NAACP beginning NAACP SC cases by 41 1) Background: • Accusations of Communism in 1945 meant they were less directly involved in protests than before the war. • Continued to challenge systems of segregation/discrimination in employment/voting/education. 2) Successes: • Employment: by 1953, 20 states implemented Roosevelt’s fair employment regulations. • Votes: 1944 Smith vs. Allright outlawed all white primary in Texas, meaning that AAs registered to vote rose from 2% in 1940 to 12% in 1947. Few AAs were elected for state legislatures but none in Deep South. Powell was elected to HoR. NAACP launched voter registration drives to encourage AA voters but these were opposed in DS. Especially difficult for AA women to vote. • Education: attempted to challenge P vs. F separate but equal ruling in education. 1949 – South Carolina, $179 was spent on white students and $43 on AAs. Pupil-to- teacher ratio was 20% better in white schools. NAACP sued on behalf of children. Thurgood Marshall 1908-93 (AA lawyer who fought SC rulings for NAACP and won almost all of them – including Brown vs. Board. Appointed first AA SC judge by Johnson in 1967) argued that the legal system should acknowledge/tackle inequality in education. • Slow but effective. 3) Roy Wilkins 1910-1981: • Leader from 1955 until death. • Continued White’s moderate policies – uneasy with confrontational policies by other 60s CR groups. • Around at same time as MLK and continued his cautious and legal approach.
President – 1953-61 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in WWII. • 2 terms as Republican President – popular because of military past. • Conception of Presidency; passive not active (only active as last resort) • Appointed Earl Warren as Chief SC judge. • Failed to enforce B vs. B. • Failed to act in 1956 when Governor Daniel of Texas sent in Rangers to stop integration enforcements so as to avoid opposition. • However, did take action in Little Rock in 1957.
COURT CASE 1) 1954 SC verdict: • Unanimously ruled that Brown should be allowed to go to the much closer white- school and that to bar her would be unconstitutional. 2) Earl Warren (1891-1974): • Lawyer and Republican politician. • As Attorney-General of Cal., made over 100,000 Japanese-American arrests in 1943 because of WWII. • Appointed Chief Justice of SC in 1943 by Eisenhower (helped him win election). • Surprised Eisenhower with liberal AA judgments. • Later headed investigation on JFK’s assassination. • In B VS. B, accepted all the arguments of Marshall (schools should have equal funding and integrated – used psychologist to show segregations effect on AA children's self-esteem). 3) Immediate impact: • Created legal precedent and expected to make changes. • Effected non-DS states; Washington DC, Baltimore, St. Louis etc.. started integrating schools. • Process was slow – by 1957, only 12% of southern schools were integrated. • Southern states used state rights to argue against ruling. Federal government was seen as dictating its values onto states and southern states would simply close public schools so there was no AA education and fund white children to attend private schools 4) Long-term impact: • TURNING POINT: showed SC would no longer block AAs CR – which Presidents and Congress were still doing. • ENDED P VS F!!!! Which had dominated race relations since then. • Went further than attacking inequality by insisting segregation was psychologically harming AAs. • Allowed more liberal verdicts to follow. • Gave southern AAs confidence in legal system which was then exploited by MLK • Signalled new era of fair judgments for more campaigns. 5) Southern attitude before: • Although economic, political and educational AA advances were small, still met southern opposition. • All Confederate states remained segregated – politicians increased racism near elections to gain votes. • Sharecroppers/labourers were easily fired if they attempted to vote. • Few AAs took legal action and fewer hoped for favourable verdicts. • KKK still present in DS/lynching less but occurring - Emmet Till 1955 • Still used state rights to dismiss ruling. Strom Thurmond disliked Truman’s army desegregation/CR Commission so deserted Democrats in the 1948 election to run as a 3rd Party Candidate (gained 1 million votes compared to Truman's 24 million and Dewey’s 22 million). • 1948 election – reminded to DS that no one else believed in segregation/state rights anymore. Since Roosevelt’s New Deal, presidents had more power and used it. States were depended on federal grants and could therefore not refuse demands. Resistance after B vs. B was last phase of opposition. 6) South attitude after : • DS now had new measures to resist change; developed White Citizen’s Councils (1st in 1955 because of B vs. B to maintain segregation through economically smiting supporters) and passing segregationist measures (Miss. and Loui. amended constitutions to retain segregation) – the whites were now on the defensive. • Became apparent that the ruling would have to be enforced in south because of their resistance (north accepted decision; respected fed. gov.). • Problem needed Eisenhower to enforce ruling but he did not act – not because of racism (outlawed any segregation in Columbia) but out of fear of opposition – did nothing when Texas brought in Texas Rangers in 1956 to prevent forced integration.
1) 1955: • 14 year old AA from Chicago visiting Mississippi. • Whistled at a white women and was (rightly) shot in the head and dumped in a river. • Received great public interest and mother invited reporters to open-casket funeral to see injustice. • Showed events were becoming rarer and attitudes were changing. • However, also showed lack of southern justice – despite clear evidence on 2 white murderers, all-white jury did not convict. CIVILIAN CAMPAIGNERNot for Emmet
1) Background: • Eisenhower did act after blatant southern resistance to integration in Central High School, Little Rock. • Governor Orval Faubus used Nation Guard to ban 9 AA students from the school after federal ruling that the school must be desegregated. • Annoyed with Faubus’ dereliction of duty (thought Faubus had agreed to obey ruling), Eisenhower used his authority as Commander-in-Chief to send in paratroopers (federal troops) to put the NG under federal control. • The soldiers who had banned entry now had to hold back protesters and escort the children to school. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 2) Impact: • Only time Eisenhower used authority to enforce B vs. B ruling. • Showed limitations of SC power in terms of acceptance, enforcement and presidents caution when implementing their rulings. • 1957 CRA – proposed bi-partisan CR Commission and division in Justice Department to look at CR problem. Thurmond spoke for 24 hours in Congress against it. Senator Lyndon Johnson only scrapped bill though the Senate by watering down its provisions. • 1960 CRA – renewed CRC to allow judges to make special appointments of pro-AA whites who would help them get onto voting register and introduced federal criminal penalties for bombing and mob action. • Both CRAs very weak and had no impact.
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1) Background: • Southern public transport segregation was always most hated by AAs – made to stand, poorer seats, thrown off buses for no reason and spoken down to/humiliated by white drivers but majority of AAs lived out of towns and so relied on them. • 1955, NAACP activist Parks was thrown off a bus for refusing to give up her seat, giving birth to new era of CR campaign. CIVILIAN CAMPAIGNER 2) Parks: • Methodist Christian and member of NAACP who was highly regarded in local community. • Others arrested for similar offences, but campaign needed person of impeccable character/morals of whom breaking the law would normally be unthinkable. • After boycott, harassment drove Parks/family out to Detroit in 1957. • Set up the Rosa and Raymond Parks institute for self-development which gave young AAs career training. • Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996 and Congressional Gold Award in 1999. 3) Why is succeeded: • Not 1st example of direct action protest but 1st that had success. • Gained near-unanimous support from ORDINARY AAs – giving them chance to participate in behaviour without fear/danger. • Impressive display of unity/stamina for; 1. Waling to work. 2. Persisting with boycott for almost a year. • Showed they could organise protests and co-operate with each other with minimal white participation. • Put financial pressure on local authorities who initially refused the slightest concession. • November 1956 after NAACP initiative in another favourable SC ruling on Browder vs. Gayle – ruling that bus segregation was unconstitutional with similar reasoning to B vs. B ruling
1) Background: • Born in Atlanta was brought up in well off family but suffered from inequality. • Forced to move north to Boston to gain his PhD. • Became a Baptist Minister in 1954 to 1960 after which he returned to Atlanta and ran his fathers church and became fully involved in the CR campaign. • Assassinated in 1968. CIVILIAN CAMPAIGNER 60s 2) Turing point?: • Chosen for his cautious reputation, was an effective organiser, brilliant speaker and great motivator. • Organised night-time church rallies that recharged AA commitment and determination. • By articulating all AAs frustrations in persuasive way, made vital link between CR campaigners and less educated general public (NAACP/Du Bois failed at). • Non-violence argued throughout life which set next 10 years of campaigning agenda. • Set up the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957 – widened CR field to react to events, not individuals (NAACP)
1) Background: • 1960 – 4 AA students staged sit-in in Woolworth’s in North Carolina (who were proud of race relations) • State hesitated which allowed numbers to grow rapidly. • Started concept of sit-ins which spread to neighbouring states. CAMPAIGNER LEGLISLATION 2) Ella Baker 1903-1986: • Ran AA voters campaign in 30s. • Joined NAACP in 40s. • Moved to Atlanta to assist MLK/SCLC in 57 and convinced him to visit protesting students. • Disliked his style and so encouraged students to form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 60s (which organised swim- ins, read-ins, watch-ins and shoe-ins. Spilt by BP in 70s) 3) Impact: • Protests were not violent but more confrontational than boycotts as it forced authorities to respond. • If response was violence, press showed it on TVs (1949 – 1 million houses had TVs which rose to 45 million by 1960. King/Baker deliberately used this attention). • This increased public support. • If state did not act, then it ended desegregation. • Meant that by 1961, 810 southern towns had desegregated facilities.
1) Background: • Reinforced sit-ins success in 1961. • Took advantage of white support (TV/media creating liberal opinions in north to such extent that white CR campaigners were emerging, despite fact that they were more brutally attacked for betraying their race). CAMPAIGNER LEGLISLATION 2) Freedom rides: • Whites and AAs would board inter-state buses in north where they could sit together, and then remain in their places when it became illegal after crossing southern boarders. • Confrontational strategy was employed effectively because of raised publicity and negative response of states. • In Alabama – police ignored a white mob attacking AA riders. • CORE revitalised to co- ordinate events. 3) Federal Government response: • SC liberal verdicts continued to aid CR campaign – particularly inspired by 1960 Boynton vs. Virginia which outlawed all inter- state travel segregation. • Kennedy viewed it as states defying law. • Helped in 1962 after 2 deaths to get James Meredith through the gates of Mississippi University to be the first AA student. • This paved way for 2 AA students to attend the University of Tuscaloosa with no response from the militantly racist Governor of Alabama, George Wallace.
President – 1961-63 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Elected as Congressman in 1945 and Senator in 1952. • Became President in 1961 (youngest ever) • ‘New Frontier’. • Slow to take up CR cause, but determined to take up CR Bill in 1963 after troubles with FR and Birmingham riots. • Prevented from seeing its success after assassination in November. 2) Response to FR: • Saw it as southern state refusal to obey federal law/maintain order. • Response had previously been lukewarm – worried about loosing southern support • Determined to keep up with Eisenhower’s intervention at LR – that failure to keep order would not be tolerated. 3) Robert Kennedy 1925-1968: • Attorney General from 1961-64. • Forcibly implemented favourable SC rulings (including desegregation of inter-state travel). • Leading role in passing CR legislation. • Feel out with Johnson, especially over Vietnam. • Could of won the Democratic nomination for Presidency but was assassinated.
1) Background: • MLK/SCLC planned to take advantage of favourable climate. • Birmingham, Alabama was large and rigidly segregated but MLK felt that if they succeeded here, everywhere else would follow. CAMPAIGNER EVENT 2) Fred Shuttlesworth 1922- 2011: • Baptist Minister who formed the 1956 Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. • Invited SCLC to Birmingham for major campaign. • Strong non-violence believer, he was one of the most courageous CR leaders. • 1963 – confronted police dogs/fire hoses head on – sent him to hospital. • Since the 80s his housing foundation helped many poor families. • Retired in 2006. 3) Eugene ‘Bull’ Connor 1897-1973: • Birmingham Commissioner of Public Safety in 1937- 53 and 1957-63 (re-elected 5 times) • Known for his determination to keep segregation at all costs/over-reacting/encouraging violence against FRs in 1961. 4) 3/4/63 • SCLC arrived, demanding desegregation and end to employment racism. • Limited progress to start and MLK was arrested. • Arranged march in May which included AA high schoolers. • Conner over-reacted and sent in police dogs and water canons. • Whole world/Kennedy saw violence unfold on TV and the over-reaction (which was what MLK needed) created the publicity the campaign needed. 5) Conclusions: 1. White business owners realised that a few concessions (such as desegregated shops) was less damaging that the continuing chaos/losing profit from boycotts. 2. Kennedy decided that law/order had been broken and would continue to fail if he did not take federal action.
1) Background: • MLK argued that waiting was not an option (spent 20 periods in jail for violating segregation laws – in Birmingham jail he wrote to clergymen who argued that AA had to wait – ‘perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to sat ‘wait’.’) • To maintain pressure, CR campaigners organised the Washington march to take their cause to the capital, directly at the heart of government. • Took place 100 years after the EP – highly emotive. CAMPAIGNER EVENT 2) I Have a Dream: • During the march, MLK’s powerful speech in front of the Lincoln memorial. • Stated that the march was for ‘jobs and freedom’, indicating concerns for AAs economically and segregationally. 3) Impact: • Over 250,000 people marched (1/3 white, with members of the NAACP who normally were wary of marches – display of strength/unity) • Peaceful/disciplined protesters contrasted with opponents; 3 weeks after the march, 4 AA children at Sunday school were killed in a bombing attack on an AA Baptist church in Birmingham.
President – 1963-69 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • President after JFK’s assassination and won landslide victory in 1964 election. • Though not always consistent, he was one of the few southern Senators who gave support to CR in 50s. 2) 1963 CRA: • LBJ needed little persuasion to act and skilfully used nations shock at JFK’s death/experience with Congress/southern background to get together a pro-CRs coalition of Republicans and Democrats that alluded previous presidents.
1) Background: • The assassination of JFK while he was preparing the Bill seemed to be a setback. • However, MLK/SCLC kept pressure on with strong campaign in Florida. • Also, LBJ needed little persuasion to act and skilfully used nations shock at JFK’s death/experience with Congress/southern background to get together a pro-CRs coalition of Republicans and Democrats that alluded previous presidents. FEDERAL LEGLISLATION 3) Impact: • Made universal what was already happing out of DS and was a major achievement as it largely defeated southern resistance. 2) Content: • Ban on exclusion from public places. • Attorney-General could file law suits to speed up desegregation, mixed schools and voting rights. • Fair Employment Practices Commission set up on permanent legal basis. • No racial, sexual or religious discrimination was lawful. • No discrimination in any federally aided programmes. • Community Relations Service was set up to deal with disputes.
1) Background: • Movement now focused on gaining legislation for voting rights after 64 CRA. • Slow but steady progress made before with 50s voters drives but voting was still low. • SCLC pursued similar tactic to Birmingham March by targeting Selma, Alabama which also had rigid segregation. • Selma had a 50% AA population but only a 1% AA voting rate and a violent police chief, Jim Clark. FEDERAL LEGLISLATION Impact 2) Protest: • As in Birmingham, TV showed violence of police towards peaceful protesters lead by MLK. • This generated public support for CRs and federal protection for a march to Montgomery. • Also lead to Johnson passing the 65 VRA in the summer. • As the march reached the place of the successful Montgomery Boycott 10 years earlier, LBJ prepared to sign the Act. 3) Act: • Following conditions for voter registration were made illegal: 1. Demonstration of educational achievement. 2. Knowledge of any subject. 3. Ability to interpret material. 4. Proof of moral character. • Meaning that AAs could register to vote on equal terms to whites.
KEY WORDS GROUP PRESIDENT PEOPLE LEGLISLATION Successes by 1992 Failures by 1992 Public-place segregation had disappeared 23% of AA men in prison – King Affair. Equal basis for voting that whites. Elected into public offices AA economic gap widened – 1/7 of AA households had income of over $50,000 by 1990 but female- lead poorer families had $6,000 average. Opposition/KKK had largely disappeared. Still white-AA split in housing All politicians accepted equality/condemned discrimination High unemployment’ 1992 – 14.2% (2x national average) for whole and 50% for teens Middle-class AA numbers had increased/important to economy 1992 – 76% of AAs graduated from HS (6% lower than whites) but schools were re-segregating
1) Unemployment and Poverty: • With southern AAs moving north to escape segregation, unskilled jobs were rare and because of poor education, these were the only ones they could do. • 50s – machines took over and over 1 million jobs were lost. • 60s – average wage for 1/10 of whole US was $5000 per year but for AAs was only 1/3. • 70s – ½ of AAs lived in north (1/3 in 50s) • With no employment, job discrimination rose especially in youth. FEDERAL PROBLEMS 2) Housing: • Segregated housing still prominent; 90% lived in segregated areas in Detroit in 70s – 85% in segregated schools in Chicago in 1964 and this was increasing. • Areas had indifferent schooling, high crime rates and no money and therefore no escape. • Blockbusting (agents encouraging white owners in AA neighbourhoods to sell cheaply and selling them to AAs at higher prices) further encouraged segregation. 3) Education: • Still de facto segregation because of segregated housing. • Caught in poverty cycle – no qualifications – no good job – stay in same conditions. • 64 CRA had little impact; not focused on social problems • Southern schools were now more desegregated than north.
1) Background: • Born into poor AA family in Nebraska. • Garvey supported farther murdered in 1931 and in 37 his mother when insane. • No educational opportunities – went to drugs/crime in NY. • When in jail in 1946-52, converted to the Nation of Islam (aka Black Muslims – founded/led in 30s by Wallace Fard until his disappearance in 34, when Elijah took over until his death in 75) • Changed his life – dropped Little (slave name) to become Malcolm X. • Minister in NOI temples in 50s and spokesman for organisation in 60s. CIVILIAN CAMPAIGNER 2) Support: • Northern AAs did not support MLK as southerners did as he focused on desegregation/voting and not social issues. Also – non-violent Christian part didn’t strike northern cultural cords (complained Washington March ignored half of its aim; ‘for JOBS and freedom’.) 3) Importance: • Northern and critical of non-violent approach, X was a prominent member of NOI until 1963. Here he heard of AA supremacy (all humans first made black until unpure white race emerged). • Proud to be an AA and critical of white society, thinking that they should not ‘beg’ whites for favours as he felt NAACP and MLK were doing. • Views spread quickly among poor northern AAs in way MLK failed. • Quick-witted debater and power over supporters. • Restricted from speaking in direct political terms by leader of NOI, Elijah Muhammad, which meant he lacked platform for campaigning. • However, did used NOI’s magazine/TV/campus talks/radios to get message across. • Dismissed from NOI in 1963 for criticising Elijah/talking out. • Changed to mainstream Sunni Muslim faith – got greater opportunities to speak 4) Elijah Muhammad 1897-1975: • Born Elijah Poole. • Converted to Muslim as a young man and became NOI leader in 34. • Jailed for avoiding draft in 1942-46. • Called for separate homeland for AAs but avoided political announcements. • Revered by X until discovered that he was immoral (affairs with secretaries) 5) Emphasis: • Disliked focus of CR and preferred focus on appalling economic and social conditions of inner-cities AAs • Rejected white-AA integration as thought whites were inherently racist and never apply their values to AAs (saw them as Africans, not American but dismissed moves to Africa for practicality) • Rejected non-violent emphasis but did not encourage violence – only self-defence. • MLK avoided commenting/FBI ran surveillance from 60s onwards but X was focused on NOI threats and cared little of white opinions on him, even praise. 6) View Change: • X dismissive of CR but re-thought after 63 successes. • Could not do a public change of views. • After NOI dismissal, travelled Africa/Asia and realised that many Muslims were white. • Came around on other campaigns just as MLK moved towards X’s. • Needed time to make an impact but was assassinated by NOI – ideas remained influential.
President – 1963-69 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • President after JFK’s assassination and won landslide victory in 1964 election. • Though not always consistent, he was one of the few southern Senators who gave support to CR in 50s. 2) 1963 CRA: • LBJ needed little persuasion to act and skilfully used nations shock at JFK’s death/experience with Congress/southern background to get together a pro-CRs coalition of Republicans and Democrats that alluded previous presidents. 3) Vietnam: • 1966 – drastic reduction in CR support from LBJ and Congress because of war. • 1967 – MLK spoke out in NY’s Riverside Church – violence against most basic principles/diverted funds/attention away from CRs in newspapers/TV. • Ended tenuous relations with President. • Ended CR legislation except for 1968 Fair Housing Act – no discrimination allowed on sale, rent or mortgaging of properties (LBJ used emotion over MLK’s death to pass it through Congress)
1) Background: • Disillusioned by lacking white support for campaigns. • Realising that CR movement must address social/economic problems to achieve northern equality. CIVILIAN CAMPAIGNER Beginning 2) 1966 Chicago Campaign: • Confirmed MLK’s pessimism. • Invited to Chicago and tried to address their de facto segregation in education, housing and employment. • Found less cooperation from AAs and resistance from racist whites. • Mayor Daley more weasely than Connor so no direct violence towards SCLC but also no co-operation/evasive. • Highlighted the housing problem but did not solve it as Daley broke promise to improve housing and end housing segregation. 3) Vietnam: • 1966 – drastic reduction in CR support from LBJ and Congress because of war. • 1967 – MLK spoke out in NY’s Riverside Church – violence against most basic principles/diverted funds/attention away from CRs in newspapers/TV. • Ended tenuous relations with President. • Ended CR legislation except for 1968 Fair Housing Act – no discrimination allowed on sale, rent or mortgaging of properties (LBJ used emotion over MLK’s death to pass it through Congress) 4) View change: • Never changed non-violent views but was disillusioned in 60s to lack of de facto change • Realised that unless problems stopped, rioting (big in 65-8) would continue – undermining non-violent strategy. • Moved towards socialism bordering on Communism and planned a Poor Man’s March from Mississippi to D.C. to protest poverty. • 4/4/68 – assassinated in Memphis while supporting AA dustmen’s fight. 5) Impact of death: • After, non-violent wishes were ignored and there was a swathe of rioting nationwide. • The movement was now leaderless, directionless, divided and confused.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 2) Vietnam: • 1966 – drastic reduction in CR support from LBJ and Congress because of war. • 1967 – MLK spoke out in NY’s Riverside Church – violence against most basic principles/diverted funds/attention away from CRs in newspapers/TV. • Ended tenuous relations with President. • Ended CR legislation except for 1968 Fair Housing Act – no discrimination allowed on sale, rent or mortgaging of properties (LBJ used emotion over MLK’s death to pass it through Congress) 1) Background: • North (communist) and South (capitalist) parts of Vietnam from 50s to 75. • US supported South and became increasingly involved in the anti-communists crusade. • By 1968, ½ million US troops (including AAs) were sent. • CR campaigners pointed out that $½ million were being spent on killing communists but only $35 sent to poor citizens.
CIVILIAN GROUP 1) Development: • X’s views had more power after his death even in previously non-violent groups. • Violent groups saw MLK as a ‘tool of the white man’ and thought AAs should have complete self-control over lives. • SNCC and CORE increasingly questioned non-violence which had made no de facto change. • Demanded more effective and fairer following of the law and radical social change (especially in housing/education). • Many rejected help from whites/dismissed AAs working with them. 2) Stokely Carmichael 1941-1998: • Born in Trinidad but moved to US at 11. • Organiser for the SNCC from 64-66, then chair. • Co-author of Black Power in 1967 which outlined vision for AAs in US. • Extreme speeches; ‘smashing everything that white civilisation has created’. • Left to join Black Panthers in 67 • Left US for Guinea in 69 and changed his name to Kwame Ture.
CIVILIAN GROUP 1) Development: • A Black Power group starting in California. • Received national attention quickly because of armed parades for ‘self- defence’ against police brutality in distinctive uniform of berets/dark glasses. • 3 years – focus of CR attention and had 1000s of members but declined after shot-outs with police in 1969. 2) Newton and Seale: • Huey Newton (1942-89) had little formal education/self-taught. Bobby Seale (1936) from air force. • Met in San Fran. School of Law and formed BPs. • 1967 - Newton was shot, arrested and convicted of violent offences. • 1971 – Seale dropped a murder charge. • 70s – both moved from violence • 1974-7 – Newton fled to Cuba. • 1989 – Newton shot dead in California. • 1973 – Seale ran for Mayor and came 2nd • 1981 – wrote history of BP and then worked to improve economic/social conditions in AA neighbourhoods. 3) Aims: • Both wanted to end white capitalism and police brutality. • Emphasised economic improvements for AAs and were clearly influenced by X and Black Power. • Developed a 10 point programme with similar demands to mainstream CR activists and some more distinctive (request for AA-white juries was common but Black Panthers demand for all- AA juries indicated emphasis on self determination/racist views towards whites.) • Long way from SCLC/NAACP and the fact that it gained SNCC support showed just how broken CR movement was. 4) 10 Point Programme: 1. Freedom – power to determine own destiny 2. Full employment 3. End to discrimination 4. Fit housing 5. Truthful education 6. Conscription exemption 7. End to police brutality 8. Freedom for jailed AAs 9. AA juries 10. Land entitlement 5) Help or hindrance: • Plan of gaining powerful white support was working in 65/6 but militant BPs were ruining it. • BUT- redefined CR question so as AAs were proud of heritage and didn’t want to integrate and ever received MLK’s support.
President – 1969-74 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Growing BP support meant many more whites were voting Republican. • Nixon took a hard line against militants and wanted a pause in the drama. • Eisenhower’s running mate in 52, took a hard line against Communism. • In 50s in Senate, took moderate line for AA CRs. • Ran for Presidency in 60 but Kennedy won • Though he opposed militant CR, affirmative action and bussing were helpful. • Watergate scandal ruined reputation in second term and withdrew rather than be impeached. 2) Actions: • Took strong line on law and order but after early initiative, no CR actions were taken as he was dominated by WS. • Meant overcrowding continued and AAs remained poor (especially in recession) • However, pervious CR gains provided momentum for changes in employment and education. 3) Employment: • Encouraged affirmative action – meant that AAs were hired over whites to work against discrimination over past 100 years. • Controversial; could positive discrimination be justified by giving AAs employment quotas in large companies? Could they overlook lacking education? • Some, including SCLC members, thought it was unwise as the American society was known for its emphasis on meritocracy. • Resulting in AA workers in Philadelphia contracts to rise from 1% to 12% from 1969 • For first time, all three American Constitutional powers worked together; Congress passed 1972 Equal Opportunities Act, giving more power to Equal Opportunities Employment Commission/enforcement of federal guidelines in Courts. SC passed 1971 Griggs vs. Duke Power Company (expectation of employers for AAs to pass exam was unreasonable because of past educational discrimination). • Didn’t do it for AAs – thought it would split TUs and was clear that voting equality was de facto and Nixon was buying votes. 4) Education: • Desegregation of schools was still implemented because of liberalism of SC. • Bussing – mandatory transportation of children to even out race ratios in schools. An extreme way to de facto enforce desegregation. Those who liked closer schools/racist opposed it. • Effect – by 1972, southern schools were more integrated than most other US states.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT NAACP 1 + 2 1) Background: • NAACP stayed focused and undertook more legal battles to desegregate schools on state and SC levels. • 1971 Swann vs. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education – ruled that since buses were already used, bussing was constitutional. • However, later verdicts (1974 Milliken vs. Bradley - stopped bussing unless there was deliberate segregation) were less enthusiastic and bussing declined. • If enforced, whites moved to suburbs where it wasn’t and if it wasn’t, re- segregation stated. 2) Higher Education: • Another case where south tried to keep colour-bar. • 1970 Green vs. Connelly made clear that segregated HE institutes would not have federal funding. • Progress was slow – remaining AA or white only collages de facto • 1971 – 1/3 of AAs nationally were in traditional AA collages but in south it was 90%.
President – 1974-77 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Selected by Nixon to replace previous Vice. • Voted for main CR Bills in 60s but was sceptical of too much federal help. • Only limited change of CR policies. • Enjoyed better race relations than Nixon and appointed first AA Transport Secretary (William T. Coleman) • However, continued with anti-bussing legislation. • 90% of AAs voted against him in 1976 election, meaning that AA voting had done a 360 in the past 100 years.
President – 1977-81 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Inactive on CRs as young Democrat, but more positive while Governor. • 1976 defeated Ford and became strong AA presidential supporter. • However, inexperience of federal politics was a major handicap but positive towards AAs. • Appointed 37 AA federal judges. • But lacked popular support/economic conditions Johnson had and liberalism of SC to further CRs. • 1978 Regents of the University of California vs. Baake – ruled white student was discriminated against. Showed result of too much affirmative action.
President – 1981-89 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Hollywood actor, losing his liberal views after becoming president of the Screen Actors’ Guild. • Governor of California in 1966/70 where he dealt forcible with student rioting. • Opposed 1965 Voting Rights Act as ‘humiliating’ south. • As president, tended to oppose welfare and employment programmes focusing on AAs. • Following conservative economic/social policies was popular. • Anti-communist but improved Soviet ties. • After opposing positive legislation while it passed, he now accepted it and claimed his administration was ‘colour- blind’ but this was a way of resisting affirmative action. • Appointed fewer AAs to his administration since Eisenhower. 2) Effect: • Presidency coincided with economic slowdown. • Reductions in welfare payments hit AAs hard; in 1980, AAs made up 11.7% of the population but made up 43% of Aid to Families with dependent children claims, 34% of housing subsidiary claims and 35% of food stamp claims. • Reagans shit policies impacted most severely poor AA families worst. • After 1983, economy recovered but many AAs did not benefit (caught in poverty trap). 3) Judicial Appointments: • Felt judicial merit should not be sacrificed for equality. • Appointment of conservative SC judge William Rehnquist caused more cautions interpretations of CR legislation. • Though no negative precedents made, they gave other rulings that modified previous CR changes. 4) Congress: • Forced to accept Congress ruling which he could delay but not stop. • 1982 – renewal of VRA, Congress strengthened it with stricter laws concerning discrimination against groups of voters. • 1983 – insisted on MLK’s birthday becoming a national holiday to which Reagan reluctantly agreed. • 1988 – strengthen the 1968 Fair Housing Act and passed another CR Restoration Act over Reagan’s veto (the 1984 Grove City vs. Bell ruling that organisations receiving federal funding only had to abide by the CR legislation for the area they were focusing on was overruled so that all aspects of CR legislation must be met before funding was allowed).
President – 1989-92 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Born into political family, was decorated for bravery in WWII. • Represented Texas in House of Representatives 1966-70 • US Ambassador for UN 1971-74. • Reagans running mate in 79. • Claimed liberal CR voter – voted for FHA 68 • Less keen on ‘artificial’ CR (affirmative action/bussing) • Vetoed CRB 1990 – saw as ‘quota bill’ only to statistically increase AA employment opportunities by affirmative action. • Only 6.9% of his judicial appointments were from racial minorities and those that were were for political gains.
1) Background: • NAACP tried to encourage AAs in southern states to register – voters in Mississippi rose from 6.7% in 1964 to 67.5% in 1968. • However, after initial rise numbers levelled out so that by the 1976 election only 50% of AAs voted FEDERAL LEGLISLATION Implication 2) AA representation: • AAs were being elected into public offices, even in the DS. • Supported by Democrats (turned tables) as VRA meant that AAs had control in politics. 3) North: • Smaller numbers and so harder to become elected. • Reflected economic upturn; 100,000 AA voters convinced to vote by AA businessmen. • More in public offices; 1964, only 100 AAs were in but rose to 8000 by 1992. • 36 HoR by 1992, meaning that they occupied 8% of the representatives (for a 11% population) 4) Make difference: • Political involvement only benefited rich AAs and not rest. • AA mayors had to avoid alienating white supporters. • Overall mood was not money-giving and support of wealthy AAs was uncertain. • Advantage of public office places ended with financial/political troubles and lack of AAs voting.
3) Significance: • Highlighted importance of AA vote as they tended to vote for AAs. • Some saw him as old-fashioned minister dictating to flocks – unnecessary now they have the vote. • Promoted aim to move from individuals to proportional representation of AAs in political life as a whole. • Accepted by whites – 1992 Bill Clinton wanted his administration to ‘look like America’. CIVILIAN CAMPAIGNER 2) 1980s: • In position to be strong leader of AAs and MLKesque style was popular and persuaded AAs to have faith in political system. 1) Background: • Emerged as prominent SCLC official in youth. • MLK used Jacksons knowledge of poor northern AAs to win support. • Founded 1971 People United to Serve Humanity which got 1000s jobs using affirmative action. • Campaigned twice for democrat presidency with the Rainbow Coalition (all minority races – came second in 88).
FEDERAL LEGLISLATION 1) Background: • Splitting of AA communities in two as wealthier AAs got more money/power as bankers/civil servants/lawyers and poor AAs became poorer – developed different social/political attitudes. • Some well off were detached from fellow AAs. • By 1980s – 40% were middle class but 30% were deeper in poverty (who were changed more by drug market/decreasing benefits) • ENDED SHARED SUFFERING. • Middle-class moved out of ghettos – leaving AA underclass (poorly educated with no help) – away from crime, unemployment and urban chaos. • Left no leaders/stable presences.
CIVILIAN 1) 1991: • Stopped, resisted arrest and then severely beaten repeatedly by police. • Caught on camera but an all-white jury acquitted police in 1992. • Race riots – 50 killed and 2000 injured as jury was in denial of police’s racism/protesters clearly rejected MLK

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OCR A2 History - African American Whole OCR book

  • 2. KEY WORDS GROUP PRESIDENT PEOPLE LEGLISLATION Successes by 1877 Failures by 1877 Slavery is gone forever. Lacked land/capital/employment Freedom of: move/marry/vote/education/worship Banned from voting and political opportunities closed as segregation rose
  • 3. President – 1860-65 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Born in Kentucky into moderate family. • Joined Republicans in 1856. • Opposed spread of slavery into west, but not calling for abolition. • President through Civil War, claiming the cause was secession of states until 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. 2) Situation: • AA’s made up 20% of population. • Slavery united diverse people. • North disputed slaveries morality. • Small number of AA’s lived in north as free citizens but were intimidated at voting stations, banned from TU’s and northerners owned slaves. 3) Civil War 1861-1865: • Abolition feelings grew in mid-19th century but it would require constitutional change. • President could not achieve this alone as he needed Congressional support – but southern states resisted. • Republicans formed in 1854 to oppose slavery. • Democrat party was split. • Climax arose over slaveries expansion into the west as Lincoln thought it would wean if contained in the south but south thought he was out to abolish it. • 1860 – southern states started succeeding from the Union to join the Confederacy (made up of 11 states who combined military power with own government system). 4) Emancipation Proclamation 1862: • Freed AA’s in Confederacy. • Slightly more slaves left plantations. • It was a political and tactile move; it satisfied antislavery northerners and took European support from the Confederacy. 5) 13th Amendment 1865: • Formally freed all slaves days before wars end. • Established de jure freedom and AA’s right to marry, worship, travel, become educated and travel. • Freed around 3.5 million AA’s, which created questions about how far this freedom would go. • Lincoln is assassinated that year and Johnson replaces him. 6) Situation in South: • AA’s had short term gains from Republicans but the long term gains were because of themselves. • South remained devastated: buildings, roads, railways, churches and schools were ruined/derelict. • Slaves were vital to south; would need to change.
  • 4. President – 1865-69 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Huge questions surrounding AA’s rights and their implementation. • 1865-1877 - Reconstruction was enforced on south which they resented and AA rights dwindled. • Johnson and Congress continued to clash. 2) Changes in law: • 14th Amendment 1868 – all AA’s got citizenship and equal protection under the law. • Civil Rights Act 1866 – (excluding NA) gave all races citizenship. • Military Reconstruction Act 1967 – divided south into military districts ruled by northern Army Generals. • 15th Amendment 1870 – forbade denial of vote. 3) Reconstruction: • Wanted to readmit south into the union (was a southerner) with pre-war relations quickly to gain southern supporters. • Issued 1000’s of pardons to rebels so rich plantation owners could assert their authority. • Though he begrudgingly supported the 13th, he said nothing of AA’s CRs and allowed the Black Codes. • Majority of northerners saw political advantage in crushing south and enfranchising AAs (they would obviously vote Republican). • Could not stop Congress’s Amendments but could veto legislation (which were overridden with 2/3rds majority in Congress). 4) Impeachment 1868: • A trial of an authoritative figure for a serious offence and the only way to remove a President. • House of Representatives is a prosecutor and the Senate jury. • Came when Johnson dismissed his successful War Secretary. • Was acquitted by one vote but weakened and allowed Republicans to rule for the rest of the year before not re-running at the election. 5) Land Problems: • After Emancipation Proclamation, many AA’s had same lives, just with (little) pay because of lacking education. • Most turned to sharecropping. • Vision of ’40 acres and a mule’ but failed – Johnson's amnesties meant that only 800,000 acres were ever available and that was taken back because of South's poorness (1/3 mules dead and 50% of machinery gone because of the war). • Land owners rose rent on sharecroppers and the crop-lien system encouraged cotton which weakened race relations. 6) Black Codes 1865: • Varied state by state but all stated that: • A ‘negro’ had more than or 1/8th black blood. • Inter-racial marriages were allowed but mixed were annulled. • Property could be owned. • Legal rights were limited. • AA’s could testify but not against whites or serve on juries. • No vote. • Segregated schools. • Pre-emptied formal segregation for the 80/90s.
  • 5. 1) Background: • 1854: formed as an anti- slavery party and supported Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. • After the war and Lincoln’s death, they argued over harshness of South's punishments to create the Radical Republicans and Republicans. 2) Reconstruction: • Felt the south should be controlled from the north (different to Johnson’s views that the south should regain their pre-war power). • Fear that Johnson’s plan would cause the south to remain the same after reconstruction. • Had help from ‘American Dream’ ideologies; all should have the chance to live it - for which AAs would need full CRs. 3) Impeachment 1868: • Johnson kept vetoing AA CR bills, but after impeachment, RR now had more control over Reconstructions direction. 4) Waning support: • With the deaths of Stevens in 1868 and Sumners in 1974, two leading RR, support waned. • This left the south unsupervised and segregation rose. • Hayes (Republican leader) agreed to the 1877 Compromise which won them the election but removed northern control in the south – ending reconstruction. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
  • 6. 1) Thaddeus Stevens 1792-1868: • Important member. • Elected to House of Representatives in 1848. • Took a hard line against southern states as he regarded them as conquered provinces. 2) Blanche K. Bruce 1841-98: • Background - In 1869, 700,000 AAs were enrolled to vote; a major role in Convention elections (to chose party leaders). • This achieved equal AA CR by 1868. • AAs now had real power with support from scalawags (sympathetic southerners) and carpetbaggers (northerners in the south). • AAs were benefiting from RR policies but real power was limited with an unproportional election rate. • 95% still lived in south until 1877 and northern rights remained theoretical. • Politics – 1870 – 22 AAs in Congress, 20 in HoR and 2 in Senate. • Bruce – 1875-81; sat in Senate. • First AA to have prominent political career but lacked mass support so did not advance AAs in general. • Born into slavery in Virginia, became a landowner and Republican politician. • On many committees and had some support to run for Vice President in 1888. 3) Frederick Douglass 1817-1895: • An escaped slave and Anti- Slavery Society activist with a newspaper. • Leading opponent of slavery before the war. • Refused an offer to run Freedmen's Bureau because of disapproval of Johnson. • Spoke/took tours arguing for CRs. • Lacked before war impact. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
  • 7. 1) Background: • Apart from voting/a few politicians, most AAs had no political role. • Most were technically free but homeless/unemployed. • Set up by federal government to aid AAs in finding homes/employment and providing food, education and medicine with Congressional funding. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 2) General Howard 1830-1909: • Surprising success under Howard who was noted for his military success in the war with one arm and a genuine interest in AAs welfare. • Supported universities and created the University of Washington to further advance AAs – it trained future lawyers/scientists/teachers • Was only the minority: 1890, 95% of AA school age children were illiterate compared to 15% of white. 3) End: • Decline of RR at end of Reconstruction in Congress in 1872 was a sign that the north were losing interest. • AAs were left to poverty because of poor education and no de facto CRs. • Some moved to southern cities but numbers remained small. • Housing remained primitive and educational support was withdrawn at the Bureau’s end. • Fear of violence was high.
  • 8. President – 1869-77 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • White southerners couldn’t see AAs as equals and used ‘state rights’ to ignore federal freedoms. • 1873 Slaughterhouse Case – ruled that citizens rights were under state control, not federal as the constitutional changes protected AAs individual rights but not CRs. • Grant broadly accepted early Reconstruction policies from RR and promised to help AAs in his 2nd term but financial scandals decreased his authority. 2) Democrats in the South: • South voted Democrats because they blamed Republicans for them losing the war. • This power was set to fall now AAs were enfranchised (they would likely vote Republican) so they began stopping them voting. 3) Grant’s 2nd term: • North hold on south loosened and Freedman's Bureau ended and federal control withdrew. • Deaths of RRs meant no one cared. • Many states had ‘redemption governments’ instead of northern control and north lost interest now slavery had ended. • Grants scandals and carpetbaggers reputation encouraged northern ideals of withdrawing that originated from decentralisation policies. • 1875 Civil Rights Act – CR applied to public places in an attempt to stop segregation but was ruled unconstitutional in 1883. • 1876 US vs. Cruikshank – Louisiana riot that left 70 AA/2 whites dead and 100 whites arrested caused a Supreme Court ruling that released them on the verdict that Enforcement Act only applied to states, not individuals.
  • 9. CIVILIAN GROUP KKK 1920’s revival 1) Background: • Segregation was de facto, but was becoming de jure with educational segregation an insight to white mentality (AAs corrupting white children and unable to appreciate such high teaching levels). • AAs relied on places of worship to escape and that became the place for most campaigners and self-help groups. 2) Nathan Forrest: • Created the KKK to use terror not encouragement to enforce segregation in 1965, Tennessee. • Opposed enfranchised AAs voting Republican to guarantee white supremacy as their domination was ‘God given’. • Violence to AAs/supporters was unprecedented and although this wave dwindled quickly, the terror remained. • Example: • Memphis 1866; 3 days of violence after AA/white carriage crash. Ended with 46 dead and 5 raped. • New Orleans 1867: attack on AA voters. Ended with 34 dead and 100 injured.
  • 10. KEY WORDS GROUP PRESIDENT PEOPLE LEGLISLATION Successes by 1915 Failures by 1915 Changes in education did increase for AA Equal opportunities in education/courts never existed AAs still free to leave and did so more Segregation was become more formal TI improved economic prospects for AAs Violence/lynching as common CR movement had began by end - NAACP Vote was still non-existence
  • 11. 1) Background: • Reconstruction ended in 1877 and for AAs; poverty was the norm, south was decreasing their CR and increasing segregation. • Sharecropping was common and masters preferred labour intensive crops so AAs did not benefit from the diversification of southern farming and suffered from boll weevils in 1892 that killed crops. • Slow movement towards AAs owning land; by 1910, 25% owned land but it was not helpful to CR as they had to concentrate on surviving. • 90% still lived in the south in 1900, decreasing by 1% since 1870. • Segregation created self-help groups and parallel businesses (hairdressers) which created an AA middle class. • Ghetto’s developed in the north which had no legal segregation but strong discrimination and poor quality of life but strong black culture was developing. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 2) Jim Crow: • Character in 19th century act. • Term became offensive as it was the stereotypical view of AAs. • Became a description of southern discriminative laws. 3) Development: • Crow laws rapidly developed between 1887 and 1891 when 8 states introduced segregation in trains, waiting rooms, school and (by 1891) all public places (parks, cinemas, baseball teams). • Lower class whites feared that AAs would take jobs and Social Darwinism reinforced hierarchical ideals.
  • 12. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT States in 1920’s 1) Background: • Enfranchised AAs were voting Republican in the segregated south in the 1880’s. • Their psychological inability to see AAs as equal/traitors rose tensions further. • The 1870 15th Amendment forbade discrimination of voters because of race, not gender/wealth. 3) Additional voting requirements: • Poll Tax – had to make payment well before voting. • Property qualifications – had to own property to vote. • 1880 Literacy tests – recite/interpret sections of Constitution. Harder tests for AAs. • Grandfather clause – only vote if grandfathers had. • By 1910, AA voting had ended in south. • Encouraged by the 1898 Mississippi vs. Williams which ruled the changes constitutional. 4) Lynching: • Southern states did nothing/encouraged mobs of white men attacking, beating and then killing southern AAs, mainly on calls of rape of white girls. • Cases were rarely brought to court and if they were, all-white juries did not convict. • Heightened fear for the whole AA community. 2) 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson: • Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation on railway carriages was constitutional as facilities were SEPARATE BUT EQUAL. • Acted as legal precedent to extend segregation to all areas of public life. • Allowed 1899 Cummings vs. Education to rule that segregated schools were constitutional, even though more money was spent on white schools.
  • 13. President – 1885-89 and 1893-97 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Affirmed CR of all citizens in his inaugural address but allowed south to continue – boasted having never shared a table with an AA. • Even Republicans/Congress did not interfere in honouring the 1877 Compromise. • Views reinforced by Supreme Court Rulings; 1898 Mississippi vs. Williams made denials of votes constitutional.
  • 14. CIVILIAN GROUP 1) Background: • Believed aspects of American society (e.g. corruption of rich) needed reformation. • However, did little for AAs struggle. • Showed the North's disinterest in AAs now they were ‘free’. • Supported by President Roosevelt.
  • 15. President – 1901-09 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Showed a passing interest in AAs. • Discussed problem with BTW. • Vice President in 1900 after President McKinley’s assassination. • Supported the Progressive Movement. • Did not really address the AAs problems. • Criticised by supremacists for approving of BTW.
  • 16. President – 1909-12 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Largely followed on with Roosevelt's policies. • Style seemed dull and lacking of Roosevelt's political skills. • Took little interest in AA rights and he saw it is state jurisdiction.
  • 17. President – 1912-21 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Held typically racist views as he was Southern born. • He dismissed all AAs and stopped association with their leaders. • He appointed segregationist southerners who segregated employees by race in government agencies. 2) End: • By final years, he was broken and sick and so replaced by Warren Harding
  • 18. CIVILIAN CAMPAIGNER 1) Background: • 1880-1910 was the height of the lynching campaign after the war and Reconstruction, mainly on AA men. • Usually accused of a crime (rape of white women) that had to ‘dealt’ with there and then wit no time for courts. • Regarded as a public event with women and children attending. • States and police did not interfere. • Never reached court as white juries would not convict. 2) Wells’ opposition: • Challenged two lynching myths; 1. That lynching was because of rape. 2. White female innocence. • Had to move from Memphis to New York to escape violence where she expressed her views in New York Age (newspaper) and the newly formed 1896 National Association of Colored Women. • Because of the reform atmosphere in the north, she received some sympathy but failed to gain Congressional/Presidential support for anti-lynching laws so cases could reach federal courts and bypass more bias south state courts. • The southern defence that it would interfere with state rights always prevailed. 3) Southern fear: • Obsession with white/black rape was revealing white fear of a mulatto nation, destroying segregation. • With segregation/voting, miscegenation laws also arose. • Leasing of prisoners by bankrupt governments was a hold on slavery.
  • 19. 1) Background: • Recognised that CR would have to wait until they had developed a community. • Born into slavery and of mixed race, benefited from education after EP. • So honoured, he set out to spread this to his people – taught at Tuskegee Institute from 1881. • Good at administration, leadership and had vision • Personal morality heighted and encouraged at TI. • Coincided with segregation – felt options were: 1. Go back to Africa (quickly rejected) 2. Assimilate (even less plausible; South’s hostility) 3. Move to North (rapidly industrialising but not the answer – whites preferred Europeans) 4. AAs should become skilled before demanding. • Therefore, TI focused on literacy/maths/practical skills rather than intellectual with good teachers to get basic jobs that would lead to change. CIVILIAN CAMPAIGNER 2) 1895 Atlanta Speech: • Argued that if whites viewed AAs as economic partners and not political opponents, tensions would diffuse but segregation would continue for now so they must focus on education/economic opportunities and not campaigning for equality. • Instant impact; ideas became known as Atlanta Compromise (AAs reach an accommodation (would compromised) with whites) • 6 months after Douglass’s death (who had toned down in waning years and not led any prominent protests) and with no other AA leader, it shot BTW into AA leadership. • Long term impact: gained interest of TR, who consulted him on AA questions and invited him for tea at the White House. • 1900 – organised the Negro Business League to be national AA chamber of commerce. • Autobiography; ‘Up from slavery’ furthered fame 3) Criticisms: • Seemed to accept white supremacy and did not challenge inequality, lynching and played down importance of vote. • Despite his effort, educational gap widened further after 1900 with funding differences. • William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963), the 1st AA to gain a PhD from Harvard in 1895 was an early sociologist who helped fund the 1905 Niagara Movement and the 1909 NAACP, but moved away from this and was arrested as a communist in the McCarthy era, turned communist and moved to Ghana (61). • Claimed that BTW limited/endangered the future of AAs as his ideas were necessary but were wrong as a basis for AA CRs as it did not mention segregation or defanchisation. • Hurt, BTW resorted to petty rebuttals but his followers remained numerous. • In later years, he realised his campaign was not working. • Gave money to individual segregation challengers and encouraged others to publish articles on AA CR progression. 4) Successes: • Career from slave to Collage Principle was inspiring. • Set strict behavioural standards that helped students. • From 1895 he was the main leader/spokesman for AAs. • Created valuable political links for future AAs. • Long term aim was to show whites that AAs could be equal if they learnt practical skills. 5) Failures: • Seemed to accept low AA position. • Tried to work in the system, not change it. • Did not focus on the vote. • After 1905, leadership was questioned by AAs. • Not effective as he didn’t change law and paranoia over critics.
  • 20. CIVILIAN GROUP 1) Background: • BTW was criticised by writers like W.E.B. and William M. Trotter 1872-1934 (born into middle class AA family, an academic at Harvard that planned a career in international banking but abandoned it because of prejudice. A newspaper writer, he was arrested for heckling a BTW speech as he wanted more vigorous protests). • They helped create the Niagara Movement in Canada which aimed to radically change the welfare policies of AAs. • Wanted a campaign to restore voting rights/abolish discrimination/CRs. 2) Impact: • Would never be a mass movement as they did not relate to normal AAs with their academic approach. • BTW would likely become too confrontational. • Lacked money/effective organisation/achieve little. • Superseded by development of NAACP but did underline key beliefs about AA legal/employment/educational equality. • Supported AA women/backed suffrages. • Demanded end to racist convict leasing.
  • 21. CIVILIAN GROUP NAACP in 40s NAACP SC cases by 41 NAACP IN 1945-55 1) 1908 Springfield Riot: • Serious race riot in Illinois which began over rape allegations. • Police refused to hand over AA – white residents rioted/attacked/burned AA homes/businesses. • Most AAs fled the city. • 84 year old AA Donnegan was lynched over the crime of being married to a white women for 32 years. • Not the violence that caused change, but location – Lincoln lived/died there and Donnegan was rumoured to be his shoe maker. 2) Impact: • As a direct response, Du Bois teamed up with other prominent AA leaders at the New York National Conference of the Negro to form first proper, national AA CR organisation. • They issued a passionate enunciation of this treatment. • Du Bois was eager (unlike Trotter) for white members as he was convinced that the scientific community were realising racial superiority was stupid and the group gained many supporters of both races. • It remained a peaceful and Constitutional organisation. • Successes were not spectacular but important in the long-term. 3) NAACP operation: • Aim was to investigate then publicise racism, then make legal solutions to enforce the law/Constitution to ensure CRs. • Adopted a constitutional approach to lawsuits as though persecution was against constitutional amendments. • BACK BY SUPREME COURT: Guinn vs. US stated that the Grandfather clause was unconstitutional. 4) 1911 Nation Urban League: • Early NAACP successes inspired development of the NUL to focus on AA welfare in north. • Although not a CR campaign group/no southern power, the NUL did campaign against housing/job discrimination. 5) Du Bois: • Despite Du Bois, most early NAACP leaders were white which lead to race-cooperation questions which continued into the 1960s. • Played crucial role by editing magazine for 20+ years to increase awareness.
  • 22. KEY WORDS GROUP PRESIDENT PEOPLE LEGLISLATION Successes by 1941 Failures by 1941 North were rejecting racist views Despite White/NAACP, success was limited No charismatic leader had emerged to replace Garvey. Congress, SC and Presidents showed little interest. Though slow, NAACP was having an impact Education still poor with funding low Still largely excluded from voting in south, allowing all-white juries to avoid AA justice Lynching had declined, but fear remained AAs had role in sports/TV/ middle-class Housing remained primitive/segregated Poverty was endemic in AA communities and employment was discriminative De jure segregation was enforced in south by white Democrats who played the race card Whites seemed determined to keep supremacy ‘state rights’ were still used to enforce segregation
  • 23. 1) Pull of north/Push of south: • Number of AAs heading north during and after WWI rose significantly. • Even before joining in 1917, war had impact because of decreasing number of European immigrants workers and weapons industry exploded. After the war, numbers continued to grow because of demands of US economy for workers in 1920s. • South encouraged move with segregation, inequality, disfranchise and violence. Sharecroppers remained poor/attacked by boll weevil. • Heard stories of northern AAs with better lives but refused to go into the melting pot. 2) AA WWI soldiers: • 350,000 served, with 40,000 in active service and 1,300 officers. • Half drafted to France in segregated regiments and did awesomely (none ever convicted of disloyalty during war). • The experience broadened horizons on inequality which stimulated campaigns 3) WWI end: • White soldiers returned to find no jobs (taken by AAs). • Produced brief but intense tension causing race riots in Chicago (teenager accidently drifted onto white only beach; stoned and drowned to death. 13 days of violence insured when Irish/Polish attacked AA ghetto’s; 23 AA/15 white dead and 1000s homeless. • Ghetto’s rapidly developed as laws forbade AAs from moving from where they originally settled because of fears over riots – ended freedom of movement. 4) Northern AAs: • Though different from south, CRs were blocked. • Ghettos caused de facto school segregation because of population patterns which were under funded/staffed. • Discrimination in work, mainly clerical/skilled jobs. • BUT – no lynching. If AAs on voting register, they could be jurors. Trials were fairer. • Institutional racism was weaker but still segregation/discrimination/poverty. 5) 1920s Jazz era: • De facto segregation encouraged developing culture. • Outpouring of writers/poets/musicians/painters. • Many talented AAs were discovered in the poverty of Harlem and so the era became the Harlem Renaissance – AAs expressing their equality desires in songs and writing. • Even this showed de facto inequality – whites owned the jazz clubs and the only AAs allowed in were performers, prostitutes and cooks. • AA middle-class developed – more AA businesses/professional than ever. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
  • 24. CIVILIAN CAMPAIGNER 1) Garvey state-side (1916): • He exploited WWI social changes briefly and efficiently after arriving from Jamaica • Rapidly gained dynamic followers within a year but downfall was just as fast. • Main AA leader for those years and although his policies did not have immediate affects, they shaped next generation of campaigners by creating ‘Black Power’. 2) Ideals: • Inspired by BTW’s TI, he created the 1914 Universal Negro Improvement Association in Jamaica to go further than BTW and improve economic prospect/white acceptance/AAs taking control of problems. • Saw the only solution to move back to Africa but was vague on details. Short term, believe AAs should focus on building education/businesses/pride in being AAs. 3) UNIA: • Aim; to campaign for equal rights and the independence of AAs rather than absorption into melting pot. • Did not ask for government help, but told AAs to develop their own means of salvation through self-help groups/own industries/factories. 4) Why successful: • In tense atmosphere, his movement made progress. • His 1917 Harlem speech was cheered and he moved his base to NY. • Made use of growing interest in AA newspapers to laugh ‘The Negro World’, funded by northern AA middle-class. • Talented speaker. • Aided by BTWs death and post-war tensions. • Idea that AAs had to be proud of heritage appealed to ghetto AAs as they could relate. • Disagreed with Du Bois that integration would work which also appealed to poor AAs who felt true equality would never happen. • Black Eagle Star Steamship line (4 ships) to raise capital was popular but then became broke. 5) Why failure: • Lacked political strategy/more bothered with fancy ventures than immediate social and economic problems. • Ran out of money. • As immediate post-war tensions calmed, so did support. • Suspicion increased when he talked to the KKK in 1922 and colleague (Easton) was murdered soon after. • ‘Garvey Must Go’ – attack in popular magazines. AA TU/NAACP opponents created Friends of Negro Freedom to highlight his failures. • Arrested in 1925 and deported in 1929 on release back to Jamaica – leaving AA CR behind.
  • 25. CIVILIAN GROUP NAACP beginning NAACP SC cases by 41 NAACP IN 1945-55 1) Background: • Southern AAs were to busy surviving to become campaigners and didn’t have the skills because of poor education. • Whites were worried that northern campaigners would pass federal anti- lynching laws which they would have to obey. • Growing AA middle-class got opportunity for AA lead mass movement and Oscar de Priest was the 1st AA to be elected into Congress since 1900 in 1928, but he was alone. 2) Post-war impact: • NAACP embodied AA campaigning after Garvey’s arrest. Led by both races, was a more vigorous legal campaign that BTW’s. • National, it focused on CR not social conditions • 1920s Secretary (James Johnson) targeted changes in desegregation, voting and education; continued by 1930s leader Walter White. 3) Policies: • Races should live/work/be educated together. Would take federal/Supreme Court rulings to make changes. • Non-violent, raising money to defend accused AA rioters. • Lobbying, not mass action. Campaigned unsuccessfully for anti- lynching laws but it did raise awareness nationwide and decreased lynching. • Growth rose rapidly after 1915 – by 1920, it has 90,000 members but that decreased to 50,000 in 1930. • Developed reputation of caution and bureaucratic outlook. • Run by middle-class and so failed to relate to working class 4) North situation: • Opposition was normally peaceful in north, but whole southern population was violent towards it, discouraging leaders from speaking out. • Its only successes were winning court cases; in the tragedy of Arkansas 1919, after 2 white men where shot in discussions, mobs of whites attacked the AA community and all AAs were arrested/killed (death toll from 20-250). NAACP appealed to SC to overrule convictions.
  • 26. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • After WSC 1929 and decline of UNIA, CR action was low. • Communists showed new militant approach rapidly for a short period to take advantage of labour unrest between 1919-21. • Recruited 7,000 homeless/unemployed northern or poor sharecropping southern AAs. • Organised legal defence for Scottsboro Boys trial. • Membership rose in 1934 when ordered by Soviet Union to fight against Fascism. 2) Successes: • CR leaders distanced themselves from fear of prejudice by association (particular during post-WWII McCarthyism). • Many saw their rejection of democracy and Soviet alliance as un-American. • In 1939 when the Soviets approved of the Hitler-Stalin pact, their limited power ended.
  • 27. CIVILIAN GROUP 1) Background: • Influenced by Communist from start. • Boycotts of discriminating shops failed to gain mass support. • Pressure group to ensure AAs got their side of the New Deal 2) Successes: • After a well-supported start, it lost support because of its close Communist ties and became limited to Communist support. • Disbanded in 1947.
  • 28. CIVILIAN GROUP KKK beginning 1) Background: • Showed southern attitudes to AAs. • Revival in 1915 in Atlanta, Georgia by William Simmons 1880-1945 (followed old Klan ideas but did introduce new features like burning crosses as a sign of KKK activity). • Communist growth aided revival. • 1915 film The Birth of a Nation glorified old Klan and presented a brutal stereotype of AAs. • 1922 – Hiram Evans 1881- 1966 (widened target of hatred to other races/religions that were not White Anglo-Saxon Protestants) took over. • Created view of AAs as pitiable creatures, who’s threat level was less that Catholics/Jews/Communists. • Split Democrat Party in south. 2) Support: • North: group remained shady and had limited support. • South: its views on capitalism, religion and ‘traditional’ American virtues increased its membership to over 5 million by 1924 from 100,000 in 1921. • Hooded members openly paraded, burned crosses, intimidated, beat, mutilated and murdered victims. • 1930 – 30,000 members remained as segregation/white way of life went unthreatened.
  • 29. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT States in 1800s 1) Background: • Majority of white southern politicians neither supported AAs or the KKK. • Democrat states intended to maintain the status quo (hohohoooooo stick to the stuff you knowwww): 1. Segregation 2. Cheap AA labour 3. White electorate suspicion of federal intervention 4. White supremacy. 4) Support: • No doubting that Bilbo and Talmadge had support because of their re-election successes, but apart from Governor of Louisiana (Harry Long) all had to play race card to undereducated, racist whites to gain support. 2) Theodore Bilbo 1877-1947 • was born into poor family, became Mississippi Governor 1916-1920 and 1928-1932 and a Senator afterwards until death. • Violently opposed any AA voters, hinting to what should be ‘done’ to them • Dubbed ‘America’s most notorious merchant of hatred’. • Suggested all AAs go back to Africa. 3) Eugene Talmadge 1884-1946: • Came from farming family and wrote agricultural journals. • Governor of Georgia from 1940-1942 and 1946-1946 (dies) • Similar to Bilbo and attacked integrated education. 5) Situation by 30s Depression: • Just before, educated opinion dismissing supremacy was rising, but depression stalled CR ideas. • P vs. F 1896 still very much in place and facilities were still not equal – for every $7 spent on white schools in 1930, only $2 went to AA schools.
  • 30. President – 1921-23 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Thought that southern states must have ‘superior understanding’ to the problem, a clear sign he would not intervene.
  • 31. President – 1923-29 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Early on, he declared that the CR of AA were as ‘sacred’ as whites. • But took a passive view and let Congress take the initiative.
  • 32. President – 1929-32 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Was his attempt to appoint a racist Supreme Court Judge that the NAACP managed to appose in 1930. • Resorted to the race card to convince Democrats of his Republican strategies – obviously failed. • Last Republican to receive wide AA support for presidency because he was a knob.
  • 33. President – 1932-44 (re-elected 3 times) FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Previous presidents were indifferent, incompetent, preoccupied and powerless to the Democratic Congress men who would oppose pro-AA legislation. • However, he was preoccupied with ‘saving America’ – in which he could not include AAs because of Democrat opposition. 2) Support for AAs: • Frankly told NAACP leader White in 1933 that he could not involve AAs in his New Deal (initiative to increase America’s economy after 1929 WSC) if it was to be passed though Congress. • If insisted on the AA problems, he would lose Democratic support. • AAs plight received more support from Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 (cousin and wife to FDR) who became aware of problems after touring the nation as First Lady. She publicly supported the NAACP’s Anti- Lynching Bill 1930s to FDR’s embarrassment. 3) New Deal: • Encouraged a wage rise and cutting of working hours. • By 1935, 30% of AA families were on benefits compared to 10% of whites – illustrating their poverty and the fair split of federal funding. • However, urban AA unemployment rates remained high and sharecroppers were hit hard by Depression (not covered by the Social Security Act or the National Labour Relations Act that helped whites because of Democrats refusal to vote for pro-AA legislation) 4) Individual Help: • Supported the 1941 Philip Randolph demand for fair employment opportunities by issuing his Executive Order to ban discrimination in workplaces. • Set up the Fair Employment Practices Commission to implement this.
  • 34. 1) Background: • Limited progress was being made for acceptance of AAs in sports. • Owens won 4 gold medals in the 1936 Olympics and challenged the ideas of white supremacy. • After success, he received advertising endorsements like white athletes. • Awarded American Medal of Freedom by President Ford in 1976. CIVILIAN CAMPAIGNER 2) Hattie McDaniel: • First AA to win an Oscar for Gone with the Wind in 1940. • Encouraged racial marches; E. Roosevelt withdrew her support from Daughter of the Revolution after they banned AA Marian Anderson (who was also banned from singing in Constitution Hall) and multi-racial crowds began attending Anderson’s concert at Lincoln Memorial.
  • 35. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT NAACP 1 + 2 1) Positives: • With federal, executive and legislative routes for AA CR blocked, NAACP turned to SC. • Lengthy, but it worked. • Since Reconstruction, SC ruling had not helped CRs apart from some early successes (1917 Buchanan vs. Warley – Kentucky residential segregation was unconstitutional but the judgment was on property rights which would not allow precedent for overturning segregation in public places). • Another positive ruling was the 1923 Moore vs. Dempsey, which failed to uphold the death sentences for 12 AAs because of unfair trials. 2) Support: • 1933 Trudeau vs. Barnes ruled that all other options must be ruled out before a case was brought to the SC – showing NAACP’s slowness. • Old judges were dying off and FRD was appointing more liberal ones – between 1937-1941, 7/9 died. Verdicts showed this change: • 1938 Gaines vs. Canada ruled that separate facilities must really be EQUAL (subsequently rose AA teachers salaries to 80% that of whites) • However, 15th (voting) was continually not enforced – showing the importance of SC rulings.
  • 36. KEY WORDS GROUP PRESIDENT PEOPLE LEGLISLATION Successes by 1965 Failures by 1965 MLK’s and others (Shuttlesworth/Baker) leadership rose AA confidence to protest Cold War fear of Communism was hard on supporters who were prosecuted Success of NAACPs legal tactic lead to favourable SC rulings Most presidents were still fearful of southern power Increasing federal support (especially LBJ) Public sympathy from white northerners because of medias increase rose mass support Poor tactics of southerners (violence) played into campaigners hands.
  • 37. 1) Impact: • AA immigration increased dramatically, with the number of AAs in San Fran increasing from 4,800 in 1940 to 32,000 in 1945. • This caused tensions and violence to rise – resulting in the 1943 Detroit riot (after an AA ‘raped and murdered’ a white women. 25/34 of the dead and most of the 1,600 arrested were AAs) • Also work tensions – if AAs were promoted, whites would walk out (as it Mobile, Alabama 1943) 2) AA WWII soldiers: • Brought its own tension/reinforced segregation. • Red Cross forced to segregate AA/white blood. • Long term positives; 100,000 AAs were sent to England – experienced more equality. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 2) Irony: • Irony of fighting Nazi fascism while oppressing own people. • CR campaigners emphasised difference and fought for fully AA CRs. • Fought by groups such as Congress of Racial Equality, set up by James Farmer in 1942 to protest against formal Northern segregation (split in 1966 over BP and after Farmer’s resignation, it became more moderate) [CORE in 60].
  • 38. 1) Background: • Period after 1945 with high capitalist/communist tensions. • Although no formal war was ever declared, the threat of nuclear retaliation was very real until 1980s. • Meant that any radical party/attempt to change system was questioned – affecting CRs as they showed sympathy towards communism and criticised the establishment. • Campaigners such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Adam Powell (first AA House of Representatives elective who challenged de facto Northern segregation but had no mass support) and groups such as the NAACP were communist suspects (despite White being very anti- communist). • Meetings were made illegal and then they were forced to fight expensive legal battles which lost campaigning money. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 2) Impact: • Wartime Soviet propaganda and irony of fighting Nazi fascism had rose profile/support for AAs CR • How could they fight for freedom while oppressing own people? • McCarthyism (post-war communist fear. J. R. McCarthy’s ruthless assault on communism lead to 200 charges in 1950 on members of the D.C. State Department. Discredited by 1954 as accusations became wild.) discredited CORE because of their direct style. AA oppression played down in favour of legal and political ones that appealed to American values/constitution • Explains why the movement failed when fighting for better housing/employment; seemed to question Constitutional rights of property/factory owners.
  • 39. President – 1944-53 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Served as a Democratic Senator 1935-1944, then became Roosevelt’s Vice. • Authorised atomic bomb on Japan in 1945. • ‘Fair Deal’. 2) AA help: • Used his authority as Commander-in-Chief of Army to end military segregation in 1948. • Commissioned a President’s Committee in CRs in 1946 - committee that reported directly to him on AA welfare/how to gain their equality in a peaceful way. Included TU leaders, churches and teachers but not CR activists. Issued a report in 1947 after interviewing 250 people; ‘To Secure These Rights’. • Identified major CR problems. 3) Impact: • Created opinion that changed climate so as future changes were welcomed but did not create any legislation as was always blocked by Congress.
  • 40. CIVILIAN GROUP NAACP beginning NAACP SC cases by 41 1) Background: • Accusations of Communism in 1945 meant they were less directly involved in protests than before the war. • Continued to challenge systems of segregation/discrimination in employment/voting/education. 2) Successes: • Employment: by 1953, 20 states implemented Roosevelt’s fair employment regulations. • Votes: 1944 Smith vs. Allright outlawed all white primary in Texas, meaning that AAs registered to vote rose from 2% in 1940 to 12% in 1947. Few AAs were elected for state legislatures but none in Deep South. Powell was elected to HoR. NAACP launched voter registration drives to encourage AA voters but these were opposed in DS. Especially difficult for AA women to vote. • Education: attempted to challenge P vs. F separate but equal ruling in education. 1949 – South Carolina, $179 was spent on white students and $43 on AAs. Pupil-to- teacher ratio was 20% better in white schools. NAACP sued on behalf of children. Thurgood Marshall 1908-93 (AA lawyer who fought SC rulings for NAACP and won almost all of them – including Brown vs. Board. Appointed first AA SC judge by Johnson in 1967) argued that the legal system should acknowledge/tackle inequality in education. • Slow but effective. 3) Roy Wilkins 1910-1981: • Leader from 1955 until death. • Continued White’s moderate policies – uneasy with confrontational policies by other 60s CR groups. • Around at same time as MLK and continued his cautious and legal approach.
  • 41. President – 1953-61 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in WWII. • 2 terms as Republican President – popular because of military past. • Conception of Presidency; passive not active (only active as last resort) • Appointed Earl Warren as Chief SC judge. • Failed to enforce B vs. B. • Failed to act in 1956 when Governor Daniel of Texas sent in Rangers to stop integration enforcements so as to avoid opposition. • However, did take action in Little Rock in 1957.
  • 42. COURT CASE 1) 1954 SC verdict: • Unanimously ruled that Brown should be allowed to go to the much closer white- school and that to bar her would be unconstitutional. 2) Earl Warren (1891-1974): • Lawyer and Republican politician. • As Attorney-General of Cal., made over 100,000 Japanese-American arrests in 1943 because of WWII. • Appointed Chief Justice of SC in 1943 by Eisenhower (helped him win election). • Surprised Eisenhower with liberal AA judgments. • Later headed investigation on JFK’s assassination. • In B VS. B, accepted all the arguments of Marshall (schools should have equal funding and integrated – used psychologist to show segregations effect on AA children's self-esteem). 3) Immediate impact: • Created legal precedent and expected to make changes. • Effected non-DS states; Washington DC, Baltimore, St. Louis etc.. started integrating schools. • Process was slow – by 1957, only 12% of southern schools were integrated. • Southern states used state rights to argue against ruling. Federal government was seen as dictating its values onto states and southern states would simply close public schools so there was no AA education and fund white children to attend private schools 4) Long-term impact: • TURNING POINT: showed SC would no longer block AAs CR – which Presidents and Congress were still doing. • ENDED P VS F!!!! Which had dominated race relations since then. • Went further than attacking inequality by insisting segregation was psychologically harming AAs. • Allowed more liberal verdicts to follow. • Gave southern AAs confidence in legal system which was then exploited by MLK • Signalled new era of fair judgments for more campaigns. 5) Southern attitude before: • Although economic, political and educational AA advances were small, still met southern opposition. • All Confederate states remained segregated – politicians increased racism near elections to gain votes. • Sharecroppers/labourers were easily fired if they attempted to vote. • Few AAs took legal action and fewer hoped for favourable verdicts. • KKK still present in DS/lynching less but occurring - Emmet Till 1955 • Still used state rights to dismiss ruling. Strom Thurmond disliked Truman’s army desegregation/CR Commission so deserted Democrats in the 1948 election to run as a 3rd Party Candidate (gained 1 million votes compared to Truman's 24 million and Dewey’s 22 million). • 1948 election – reminded to DS that no one else believed in segregation/state rights anymore. Since Roosevelt’s New Deal, presidents had more power and used it. States were depended on federal grants and could therefore not refuse demands. Resistance after B vs. B was last phase of opposition. 6) South attitude after : • DS now had new measures to resist change; developed White Citizen’s Councils (1st in 1955 because of B vs. B to maintain segregation through economically smiting supporters) and passing segregationist measures (Miss. and Loui. amended constitutions to retain segregation) – the whites were now on the defensive. • Became apparent that the ruling would have to be enforced in south because of their resistance (north accepted decision; respected fed. gov.). • Problem needed Eisenhower to enforce ruling but he did not act – not because of racism (outlawed any segregation in Columbia) but out of fear of opposition – did nothing when Texas brought in Texas Rangers in 1956 to prevent forced integration.
  • 43. 1) 1955: • 14 year old AA from Chicago visiting Mississippi. • Whistled at a white women and was (rightly) shot in the head and dumped in a river. • Received great public interest and mother invited reporters to open-casket funeral to see injustice. • Showed events were becoming rarer and attitudes were changing. • However, also showed lack of southern justice – despite clear evidence on 2 white murderers, all-white jury did not convict. CIVILIAN CAMPAIGNERNot for Emmet
  • 44. 1) Background: • Eisenhower did act after blatant southern resistance to integration in Central High School, Little Rock. • Governor Orval Faubus used Nation Guard to ban 9 AA students from the school after federal ruling that the school must be desegregated. • Annoyed with Faubus’ dereliction of duty (thought Faubus had agreed to obey ruling), Eisenhower used his authority as Commander-in-Chief to send in paratroopers (federal troops) to put the NG under federal control. • The soldiers who had banned entry now had to hold back protesters and escort the children to school. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 2) Impact: • Only time Eisenhower used authority to enforce B vs. B ruling. • Showed limitations of SC power in terms of acceptance, enforcement and presidents caution when implementing their rulings. • 1957 CRA – proposed bi-partisan CR Commission and division in Justice Department to look at CR problem. Thurmond spoke for 24 hours in Congress against it. Senator Lyndon Johnson only scrapped bill though the Senate by watering down its provisions. • 1960 CRA – renewed CRC to allow judges to make special appointments of pro-AA whites who would help them get onto voting register and introduced federal criminal penalties for bombing and mob action. • Both CRAs very weak and had no impact.
  • 46. 1) Background: • Southern public transport segregation was always most hated by AAs – made to stand, poorer seats, thrown off buses for no reason and spoken down to/humiliated by white drivers but majority of AAs lived out of towns and so relied on them. • 1955, NAACP activist Parks was thrown off a bus for refusing to give up her seat, giving birth to new era of CR campaign. CIVILIAN CAMPAIGNER 2) Parks: • Methodist Christian and member of NAACP who was highly regarded in local community. • Others arrested for similar offences, but campaign needed person of impeccable character/morals of whom breaking the law would normally be unthinkable. • After boycott, harassment drove Parks/family out to Detroit in 1957. • Set up the Rosa and Raymond Parks institute for self-development which gave young AAs career training. • Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996 and Congressional Gold Award in 1999. 3) Why is succeeded: • Not 1st example of direct action protest but 1st that had success. • Gained near-unanimous support from ORDINARY AAs – giving them chance to participate in behaviour without fear/danger. • Impressive display of unity/stamina for; 1. Waling to work. 2. Persisting with boycott for almost a year. • Showed they could organise protests and co-operate with each other with minimal white participation. • Put financial pressure on local authorities who initially refused the slightest concession. • November 1956 after NAACP initiative in another favourable SC ruling on Browder vs. Gayle – ruling that bus segregation was unconstitutional with similar reasoning to B vs. B ruling
  • 47. 1) Background: • Born in Atlanta was brought up in well off family but suffered from inequality. • Forced to move north to Boston to gain his PhD. • Became a Baptist Minister in 1954 to 1960 after which he returned to Atlanta and ran his fathers church and became fully involved in the CR campaign. • Assassinated in 1968. CIVILIAN CAMPAIGNER 60s 2) Turing point?: • Chosen for his cautious reputation, was an effective organiser, brilliant speaker and great motivator. • Organised night-time church rallies that recharged AA commitment and determination. • By articulating all AAs frustrations in persuasive way, made vital link between CR campaigners and less educated general public (NAACP/Du Bois failed at). • Non-violence argued throughout life which set next 10 years of campaigning agenda. • Set up the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957 – widened CR field to react to events, not individuals (NAACP)
  • 48. 1) Background: • 1960 – 4 AA students staged sit-in in Woolworth’s in North Carolina (who were proud of race relations) • State hesitated which allowed numbers to grow rapidly. • Started concept of sit-ins which spread to neighbouring states. CAMPAIGNER LEGLISLATION 2) Ella Baker 1903-1986: • Ran AA voters campaign in 30s. • Joined NAACP in 40s. • Moved to Atlanta to assist MLK/SCLC in 57 and convinced him to visit protesting students. • Disliked his style and so encouraged students to form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 60s (which organised swim- ins, read-ins, watch-ins and shoe-ins. Spilt by BP in 70s) 3) Impact: • Protests were not violent but more confrontational than boycotts as it forced authorities to respond. • If response was violence, press showed it on TVs (1949 – 1 million houses had TVs which rose to 45 million by 1960. King/Baker deliberately used this attention). • This increased public support. • If state did not act, then it ended desegregation. • Meant that by 1961, 810 southern towns had desegregated facilities.
  • 49. 1) Background: • Reinforced sit-ins success in 1961. • Took advantage of white support (TV/media creating liberal opinions in north to such extent that white CR campaigners were emerging, despite fact that they were more brutally attacked for betraying their race). CAMPAIGNER LEGLISLATION 2) Freedom rides: • Whites and AAs would board inter-state buses in north where they could sit together, and then remain in their places when it became illegal after crossing southern boarders. • Confrontational strategy was employed effectively because of raised publicity and negative response of states. • In Alabama – police ignored a white mob attacking AA riders. • CORE revitalised to co- ordinate events. 3) Federal Government response: • SC liberal verdicts continued to aid CR campaign – particularly inspired by 1960 Boynton vs. Virginia which outlawed all inter- state travel segregation. • Kennedy viewed it as states defying law. • Helped in 1962 after 2 deaths to get James Meredith through the gates of Mississippi University to be the first AA student. • This paved way for 2 AA students to attend the University of Tuscaloosa with no response from the militantly racist Governor of Alabama, George Wallace.
  • 50. President – 1961-63 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Elected as Congressman in 1945 and Senator in 1952. • Became President in 1961 (youngest ever) • ‘New Frontier’. • Slow to take up CR cause, but determined to take up CR Bill in 1963 after troubles with FR and Birmingham riots. • Prevented from seeing its success after assassination in November. 2) Response to FR: • Saw it as southern state refusal to obey federal law/maintain order. • Response had previously been lukewarm – worried about loosing southern support • Determined to keep up with Eisenhower’s intervention at LR – that failure to keep order would not be tolerated. 3) Robert Kennedy 1925-1968: • Attorney General from 1961-64. • Forcibly implemented favourable SC rulings (including desegregation of inter-state travel). • Leading role in passing CR legislation. • Feel out with Johnson, especially over Vietnam. • Could of won the Democratic nomination for Presidency but was assassinated.
  • 51. 1) Background: • MLK/SCLC planned to take advantage of favourable climate. • Birmingham, Alabama was large and rigidly segregated but MLK felt that if they succeeded here, everywhere else would follow. CAMPAIGNER EVENT 2) Fred Shuttlesworth 1922- 2011: • Baptist Minister who formed the 1956 Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. • Invited SCLC to Birmingham for major campaign. • Strong non-violence believer, he was one of the most courageous CR leaders. • 1963 – confronted police dogs/fire hoses head on – sent him to hospital. • Since the 80s his housing foundation helped many poor families. • Retired in 2006. 3) Eugene ‘Bull’ Connor 1897-1973: • Birmingham Commissioner of Public Safety in 1937- 53 and 1957-63 (re-elected 5 times) • Known for his determination to keep segregation at all costs/over-reacting/encouraging violence against FRs in 1961. 4) 3/4/63 • SCLC arrived, demanding desegregation and end to employment racism. • Limited progress to start and MLK was arrested. • Arranged march in May which included AA high schoolers. • Conner over-reacted and sent in police dogs and water canons. • Whole world/Kennedy saw violence unfold on TV and the over-reaction (which was what MLK needed) created the publicity the campaign needed. 5) Conclusions: 1. White business owners realised that a few concessions (such as desegregated shops) was less damaging that the continuing chaos/losing profit from boycotts. 2. Kennedy decided that law/order had been broken and would continue to fail if he did not take federal action.
  • 52. 1) Background: • MLK argued that waiting was not an option (spent 20 periods in jail for violating segregation laws – in Birmingham jail he wrote to clergymen who argued that AA had to wait – ‘perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to sat ‘wait’.’) • To maintain pressure, CR campaigners organised the Washington march to take their cause to the capital, directly at the heart of government. • Took place 100 years after the EP – highly emotive. CAMPAIGNER EVENT 2) I Have a Dream: • During the march, MLK’s powerful speech in front of the Lincoln memorial. • Stated that the march was for ‘jobs and freedom’, indicating concerns for AAs economically and segregationally. 3) Impact: • Over 250,000 people marched (1/3 white, with members of the NAACP who normally were wary of marches – display of strength/unity) • Peaceful/disciplined protesters contrasted with opponents; 3 weeks after the march, 4 AA children at Sunday school were killed in a bombing attack on an AA Baptist church in Birmingham.
  • 53. President – 1963-69 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • President after JFK’s assassination and won landslide victory in 1964 election. • Though not always consistent, he was one of the few southern Senators who gave support to CR in 50s. 2) 1963 CRA: • LBJ needed little persuasion to act and skilfully used nations shock at JFK’s death/experience with Congress/southern background to get together a pro-CRs coalition of Republicans and Democrats that alluded previous presidents.
  • 54. 1) Background: • The assassination of JFK while he was preparing the Bill seemed to be a setback. • However, MLK/SCLC kept pressure on with strong campaign in Florida. • Also, LBJ needed little persuasion to act and skilfully used nations shock at JFK’s death/experience with Congress/southern background to get together a pro-CRs coalition of Republicans and Democrats that alluded previous presidents. FEDERAL LEGLISLATION 3) Impact: • Made universal what was already happing out of DS and was a major achievement as it largely defeated southern resistance. 2) Content: • Ban on exclusion from public places. • Attorney-General could file law suits to speed up desegregation, mixed schools and voting rights. • Fair Employment Practices Commission set up on permanent legal basis. • No racial, sexual or religious discrimination was lawful. • No discrimination in any federally aided programmes. • Community Relations Service was set up to deal with disputes.
  • 55. 1) Background: • Movement now focused on gaining legislation for voting rights after 64 CRA. • Slow but steady progress made before with 50s voters drives but voting was still low. • SCLC pursued similar tactic to Birmingham March by targeting Selma, Alabama which also had rigid segregation. • Selma had a 50% AA population but only a 1% AA voting rate and a violent police chief, Jim Clark. FEDERAL LEGLISLATION Impact 2) Protest: • As in Birmingham, TV showed violence of police towards peaceful protesters lead by MLK. • This generated public support for CRs and federal protection for a march to Montgomery. • Also lead to Johnson passing the 65 VRA in the summer. • As the march reached the place of the successful Montgomery Boycott 10 years earlier, LBJ prepared to sign the Act. 3) Act: • Following conditions for voter registration were made illegal: 1. Demonstration of educational achievement. 2. Knowledge of any subject. 3. Ability to interpret material. 4. Proof of moral character. • Meaning that AAs could register to vote on equal terms to whites.
  • 56. KEY WORDS GROUP PRESIDENT PEOPLE LEGLISLATION Successes by 1992 Failures by 1992 Public-place segregation had disappeared 23% of AA men in prison – King Affair. Equal basis for voting that whites. Elected into public offices AA economic gap widened – 1/7 of AA households had income of over $50,000 by 1990 but female- lead poorer families had $6,000 average. Opposition/KKK had largely disappeared. Still white-AA split in housing All politicians accepted equality/condemned discrimination High unemployment’ 1992 – 14.2% (2x national average) for whole and 50% for teens Middle-class AA numbers had increased/important to economy 1992 – 76% of AAs graduated from HS (6% lower than whites) but schools were re-segregating
  • 57. 1) Unemployment and Poverty: • With southern AAs moving north to escape segregation, unskilled jobs were rare and because of poor education, these were the only ones they could do. • 50s – machines took over and over 1 million jobs were lost. • 60s – average wage for 1/10 of whole US was $5000 per year but for AAs was only 1/3. • 70s – ½ of AAs lived in north (1/3 in 50s) • With no employment, job discrimination rose especially in youth. FEDERAL PROBLEMS 2) Housing: • Segregated housing still prominent; 90% lived in segregated areas in Detroit in 70s – 85% in segregated schools in Chicago in 1964 and this was increasing. • Areas had indifferent schooling, high crime rates and no money and therefore no escape. • Blockbusting (agents encouraging white owners in AA neighbourhoods to sell cheaply and selling them to AAs at higher prices) further encouraged segregation. 3) Education: • Still de facto segregation because of segregated housing. • Caught in poverty cycle – no qualifications – no good job – stay in same conditions. • 64 CRA had little impact; not focused on social problems • Southern schools were now more desegregated than north.
  • 58. 1) Background: • Born into poor AA family in Nebraska. • Garvey supported farther murdered in 1931 and in 37 his mother when insane. • No educational opportunities – went to drugs/crime in NY. • When in jail in 1946-52, converted to the Nation of Islam (aka Black Muslims – founded/led in 30s by Wallace Fard until his disappearance in 34, when Elijah took over until his death in 75) • Changed his life – dropped Little (slave name) to become Malcolm X. • Minister in NOI temples in 50s and spokesman for organisation in 60s. CIVILIAN CAMPAIGNER 2) Support: • Northern AAs did not support MLK as southerners did as he focused on desegregation/voting and not social issues. Also – non-violent Christian part didn’t strike northern cultural cords (complained Washington March ignored half of its aim; ‘for JOBS and freedom’.) 3) Importance: • Northern and critical of non-violent approach, X was a prominent member of NOI until 1963. Here he heard of AA supremacy (all humans first made black until unpure white race emerged). • Proud to be an AA and critical of white society, thinking that they should not ‘beg’ whites for favours as he felt NAACP and MLK were doing. • Views spread quickly among poor northern AAs in way MLK failed. • Quick-witted debater and power over supporters. • Restricted from speaking in direct political terms by leader of NOI, Elijah Muhammad, which meant he lacked platform for campaigning. • However, did used NOI’s magazine/TV/campus talks/radios to get message across. • Dismissed from NOI in 1963 for criticising Elijah/talking out. • Changed to mainstream Sunni Muslim faith – got greater opportunities to speak 4) Elijah Muhammad 1897-1975: • Born Elijah Poole. • Converted to Muslim as a young man and became NOI leader in 34. • Jailed for avoiding draft in 1942-46. • Called for separate homeland for AAs but avoided political announcements. • Revered by X until discovered that he was immoral (affairs with secretaries) 5) Emphasis: • Disliked focus of CR and preferred focus on appalling economic and social conditions of inner-cities AAs • Rejected white-AA integration as thought whites were inherently racist and never apply their values to AAs (saw them as Africans, not American but dismissed moves to Africa for practicality) • Rejected non-violent emphasis but did not encourage violence – only self-defence. • MLK avoided commenting/FBI ran surveillance from 60s onwards but X was focused on NOI threats and cared little of white opinions on him, even praise. 6) View Change: • X dismissive of CR but re-thought after 63 successes. • Could not do a public change of views. • After NOI dismissal, travelled Africa/Asia and realised that many Muslims were white. • Came around on other campaigns just as MLK moved towards X’s. • Needed time to make an impact but was assassinated by NOI – ideas remained influential.
  • 59. President – 1963-69 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • President after JFK’s assassination and won landslide victory in 1964 election. • Though not always consistent, he was one of the few southern Senators who gave support to CR in 50s. 2) 1963 CRA: • LBJ needed little persuasion to act and skilfully used nations shock at JFK’s death/experience with Congress/southern background to get together a pro-CRs coalition of Republicans and Democrats that alluded previous presidents. 3) Vietnam: • 1966 – drastic reduction in CR support from LBJ and Congress because of war. • 1967 – MLK spoke out in NY’s Riverside Church – violence against most basic principles/diverted funds/attention away from CRs in newspapers/TV. • Ended tenuous relations with President. • Ended CR legislation except for 1968 Fair Housing Act – no discrimination allowed on sale, rent or mortgaging of properties (LBJ used emotion over MLK’s death to pass it through Congress)
  • 60. 1) Background: • Disillusioned by lacking white support for campaigns. • Realising that CR movement must address social/economic problems to achieve northern equality. CIVILIAN CAMPAIGNER Beginning 2) 1966 Chicago Campaign: • Confirmed MLK’s pessimism. • Invited to Chicago and tried to address their de facto segregation in education, housing and employment. • Found less cooperation from AAs and resistance from racist whites. • Mayor Daley more weasely than Connor so no direct violence towards SCLC but also no co-operation/evasive. • Highlighted the housing problem but did not solve it as Daley broke promise to improve housing and end housing segregation. 3) Vietnam: • 1966 – drastic reduction in CR support from LBJ and Congress because of war. • 1967 – MLK spoke out in NY’s Riverside Church – violence against most basic principles/diverted funds/attention away from CRs in newspapers/TV. • Ended tenuous relations with President. • Ended CR legislation except for 1968 Fair Housing Act – no discrimination allowed on sale, rent or mortgaging of properties (LBJ used emotion over MLK’s death to pass it through Congress) 4) View change: • Never changed non-violent views but was disillusioned in 60s to lack of de facto change • Realised that unless problems stopped, rioting (big in 65-8) would continue – undermining non-violent strategy. • Moved towards socialism bordering on Communism and planned a Poor Man’s March from Mississippi to D.C. to protest poverty. • 4/4/68 – assassinated in Memphis while supporting AA dustmen’s fight. 5) Impact of death: • After, non-violent wishes were ignored and there was a swathe of rioting nationwide. • The movement was now leaderless, directionless, divided and confused.
  • 61. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 2) Vietnam: • 1966 – drastic reduction in CR support from LBJ and Congress because of war. • 1967 – MLK spoke out in NY’s Riverside Church – violence against most basic principles/diverted funds/attention away from CRs in newspapers/TV. • Ended tenuous relations with President. • Ended CR legislation except for 1968 Fair Housing Act – no discrimination allowed on sale, rent or mortgaging of properties (LBJ used emotion over MLK’s death to pass it through Congress) 1) Background: • North (communist) and South (capitalist) parts of Vietnam from 50s to 75. • US supported South and became increasingly involved in the anti-communists crusade. • By 1968, ½ million US troops (including AAs) were sent. • CR campaigners pointed out that $½ million were being spent on killing communists but only $35 sent to poor citizens.
  • 62. CIVILIAN GROUP 1) Development: • X’s views had more power after his death even in previously non-violent groups. • Violent groups saw MLK as a ‘tool of the white man’ and thought AAs should have complete self-control over lives. • SNCC and CORE increasingly questioned non-violence which had made no de facto change. • Demanded more effective and fairer following of the law and radical social change (especially in housing/education). • Many rejected help from whites/dismissed AAs working with them. 2) Stokely Carmichael 1941-1998: • Born in Trinidad but moved to US at 11. • Organiser for the SNCC from 64-66, then chair. • Co-author of Black Power in 1967 which outlined vision for AAs in US. • Extreme speeches; ‘smashing everything that white civilisation has created’. • Left to join Black Panthers in 67 • Left US for Guinea in 69 and changed his name to Kwame Ture.
  • 63. CIVILIAN GROUP 1) Development: • A Black Power group starting in California. • Received national attention quickly because of armed parades for ‘self- defence’ against police brutality in distinctive uniform of berets/dark glasses. • 3 years – focus of CR attention and had 1000s of members but declined after shot-outs with police in 1969. 2) Newton and Seale: • Huey Newton (1942-89) had little formal education/self-taught. Bobby Seale (1936) from air force. • Met in San Fran. School of Law and formed BPs. • 1967 - Newton was shot, arrested and convicted of violent offences. • 1971 – Seale dropped a murder charge. • 70s – both moved from violence • 1974-7 – Newton fled to Cuba. • 1989 – Newton shot dead in California. • 1973 – Seale ran for Mayor and came 2nd • 1981 – wrote history of BP and then worked to improve economic/social conditions in AA neighbourhoods. 3) Aims: • Both wanted to end white capitalism and police brutality. • Emphasised economic improvements for AAs and were clearly influenced by X and Black Power. • Developed a 10 point programme with similar demands to mainstream CR activists and some more distinctive (request for AA-white juries was common but Black Panthers demand for all- AA juries indicated emphasis on self determination/racist views towards whites.) • Long way from SCLC/NAACP and the fact that it gained SNCC support showed just how broken CR movement was. 4) 10 Point Programme: 1. Freedom – power to determine own destiny 2. Full employment 3. End to discrimination 4. Fit housing 5. Truthful education 6. Conscription exemption 7. End to police brutality 8. Freedom for jailed AAs 9. AA juries 10. Land entitlement 5) Help or hindrance: • Plan of gaining powerful white support was working in 65/6 but militant BPs were ruining it. • BUT- redefined CR question so as AAs were proud of heritage and didn’t want to integrate and ever received MLK’s support.
  • 64. President – 1969-74 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Growing BP support meant many more whites were voting Republican. • Nixon took a hard line against militants and wanted a pause in the drama. • Eisenhower’s running mate in 52, took a hard line against Communism. • In 50s in Senate, took moderate line for AA CRs. • Ran for Presidency in 60 but Kennedy won • Though he opposed militant CR, affirmative action and bussing were helpful. • Watergate scandal ruined reputation in second term and withdrew rather than be impeached. 2) Actions: • Took strong line on law and order but after early initiative, no CR actions were taken as he was dominated by WS. • Meant overcrowding continued and AAs remained poor (especially in recession) • However, pervious CR gains provided momentum for changes in employment and education. 3) Employment: • Encouraged affirmative action – meant that AAs were hired over whites to work against discrimination over past 100 years. • Controversial; could positive discrimination be justified by giving AAs employment quotas in large companies? Could they overlook lacking education? • Some, including SCLC members, thought it was unwise as the American society was known for its emphasis on meritocracy. • Resulting in AA workers in Philadelphia contracts to rise from 1% to 12% from 1969 • For first time, all three American Constitutional powers worked together; Congress passed 1972 Equal Opportunities Act, giving more power to Equal Opportunities Employment Commission/enforcement of federal guidelines in Courts. SC passed 1971 Griggs vs. Duke Power Company (expectation of employers for AAs to pass exam was unreasonable because of past educational discrimination). • Didn’t do it for AAs – thought it would split TUs and was clear that voting equality was de facto and Nixon was buying votes. 4) Education: • Desegregation of schools was still implemented because of liberalism of SC. • Bussing – mandatory transportation of children to even out race ratios in schools. An extreme way to de facto enforce desegregation. Those who liked closer schools/racist opposed it. • Effect – by 1972, southern schools were more integrated than most other US states.
  • 65. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT NAACP 1 + 2 1) Background: • NAACP stayed focused and undertook more legal battles to desegregate schools on state and SC levels. • 1971 Swann vs. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education – ruled that since buses were already used, bussing was constitutional. • However, later verdicts (1974 Milliken vs. Bradley - stopped bussing unless there was deliberate segregation) were less enthusiastic and bussing declined. • If enforced, whites moved to suburbs where it wasn’t and if it wasn’t, re- segregation stated. 2) Higher Education: • Another case where south tried to keep colour-bar. • 1970 Green vs. Connelly made clear that segregated HE institutes would not have federal funding. • Progress was slow – remaining AA or white only collages de facto • 1971 – 1/3 of AAs nationally were in traditional AA collages but in south it was 90%.
  • 66. President – 1974-77 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Selected by Nixon to replace previous Vice. • Voted for main CR Bills in 60s but was sceptical of too much federal help. • Only limited change of CR policies. • Enjoyed better race relations than Nixon and appointed first AA Transport Secretary (William T. Coleman) • However, continued with anti-bussing legislation. • 90% of AAs voted against him in 1976 election, meaning that AA voting had done a 360 in the past 100 years.
  • 67. President – 1977-81 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Inactive on CRs as young Democrat, but more positive while Governor. • 1976 defeated Ford and became strong AA presidential supporter. • However, inexperience of federal politics was a major handicap but positive towards AAs. • Appointed 37 AA federal judges. • But lacked popular support/economic conditions Johnson had and liberalism of SC to further CRs. • 1978 Regents of the University of California vs. Baake – ruled white student was discriminated against. Showed result of too much affirmative action.
  • 68. President – 1981-89 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Hollywood actor, losing his liberal views after becoming president of the Screen Actors’ Guild. • Governor of California in 1966/70 where he dealt forcible with student rioting. • Opposed 1965 Voting Rights Act as ‘humiliating’ south. • As president, tended to oppose welfare and employment programmes focusing on AAs. • Following conservative economic/social policies was popular. • Anti-communist but improved Soviet ties. • After opposing positive legislation while it passed, he now accepted it and claimed his administration was ‘colour- blind’ but this was a way of resisting affirmative action. • Appointed fewer AAs to his administration since Eisenhower. 2) Effect: • Presidency coincided with economic slowdown. • Reductions in welfare payments hit AAs hard; in 1980, AAs made up 11.7% of the population but made up 43% of Aid to Families with dependent children claims, 34% of housing subsidiary claims and 35% of food stamp claims. • Reagans shit policies impacted most severely poor AA families worst. • After 1983, economy recovered but many AAs did not benefit (caught in poverty trap). 3) Judicial Appointments: • Felt judicial merit should not be sacrificed for equality. • Appointment of conservative SC judge William Rehnquist caused more cautions interpretations of CR legislation. • Though no negative precedents made, they gave other rulings that modified previous CR changes. 4) Congress: • Forced to accept Congress ruling which he could delay but not stop. • 1982 – renewal of VRA, Congress strengthened it with stricter laws concerning discrimination against groups of voters. • 1983 – insisted on MLK’s birthday becoming a national holiday to which Reagan reluctantly agreed. • 1988 – strengthen the 1968 Fair Housing Act and passed another CR Restoration Act over Reagan’s veto (the 1984 Grove City vs. Bell ruling that organisations receiving federal funding only had to abide by the CR legislation for the area they were focusing on was overruled so that all aspects of CR legislation must be met before funding was allowed).
  • 69. President – 1989-92 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1) Background: • Born into political family, was decorated for bravery in WWII. • Represented Texas in House of Representatives 1966-70 • US Ambassador for UN 1971-74. • Reagans running mate in 79. • Claimed liberal CR voter – voted for FHA 68 • Less keen on ‘artificial’ CR (affirmative action/bussing) • Vetoed CRB 1990 – saw as ‘quota bill’ only to statistically increase AA employment opportunities by affirmative action. • Only 6.9% of his judicial appointments were from racial minorities and those that were were for political gains.
  • 70. 1) Background: • NAACP tried to encourage AAs in southern states to register – voters in Mississippi rose from 6.7% in 1964 to 67.5% in 1968. • However, after initial rise numbers levelled out so that by the 1976 election only 50% of AAs voted FEDERAL LEGLISLATION Implication 2) AA representation: • AAs were being elected into public offices, even in the DS. • Supported by Democrats (turned tables) as VRA meant that AAs had control in politics. 3) North: • Smaller numbers and so harder to become elected. • Reflected economic upturn; 100,000 AA voters convinced to vote by AA businessmen. • More in public offices; 1964, only 100 AAs were in but rose to 8000 by 1992. • 36 HoR by 1992, meaning that they occupied 8% of the representatives (for a 11% population) 4) Make difference: • Political involvement only benefited rich AAs and not rest. • AA mayors had to avoid alienating white supporters. • Overall mood was not money-giving and support of wealthy AAs was uncertain. • Advantage of public office places ended with financial/political troubles and lack of AAs voting.
  • 71. 3) Significance: • Highlighted importance of AA vote as they tended to vote for AAs. • Some saw him as old-fashioned minister dictating to flocks – unnecessary now they have the vote. • Promoted aim to move from individuals to proportional representation of AAs in political life as a whole. • Accepted by whites – 1992 Bill Clinton wanted his administration to ‘look like America’. CIVILIAN CAMPAIGNER 2) 1980s: • In position to be strong leader of AAs and MLKesque style was popular and persuaded AAs to have faith in political system. 1) Background: • Emerged as prominent SCLC official in youth. • MLK used Jacksons knowledge of poor northern AAs to win support. • Founded 1971 People United to Serve Humanity which got 1000s jobs using affirmative action. • Campaigned twice for democrat presidency with the Rainbow Coalition (all minority races – came second in 88).
  • 72. FEDERAL LEGLISLATION 1) Background: • Splitting of AA communities in two as wealthier AAs got more money/power as bankers/civil servants/lawyers and poor AAs became poorer – developed different social/political attitudes. • Some well off were detached from fellow AAs. • By 1980s – 40% were middle class but 30% were deeper in poverty (who were changed more by drug market/decreasing benefits) • ENDED SHARED SUFFERING. • Middle-class moved out of ghettos – leaving AA underclass (poorly educated with no help) – away from crime, unemployment and urban chaos. • Left no leaders/stable presences.
  • 73. CIVILIAN 1) 1991: • Stopped, resisted arrest and then severely beaten repeatedly by police. • Caught on camera but an all-white jury acquitted police in 1992. • Race riots – 50 killed and 2000 injured as jury was in denial of police’s racism/protesters clearly rejected MLK

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  • #3: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HELP: TURNING POINT: HELP: HINDERANCE:
  • #4: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HELP: TURNING POINT: allowed AAs to have de jure legal rights for the first time HELP: gave them legal president to be citizens and leave plantations and right to worship which was foundation for latter CR groups HINDERANCE: was only for political advantage/emancipation proclamation was only for southern AAs.
  • #5: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HINDERANCE: TURNING POINT: started to allow Black Codes to develop/rich whites to get around 13th HELP: law changes (14th (citizenship), CR 66 (all races citizenship), Mil. Rec (reorganised south to take away power), 15th (vote) but they were mainly Congress. HINDERANCE: allowed Black Codes and fought Congress on legislation.
  • #6: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HELP: TURNING POINT: first party to support AAs and fight for their de jure rights HELP: set legal president for AAs to help themselves and got first politicians actually wanting to help AAs (not for political gains). Recognised need for full CRs. HINDERANCE: most only wanted to help for more votes. Quickly lost power with death of leaders. Allowed end of Reconstruction for Presidency.
  • #7: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HELP: TURNING POINT: first leaders of CR movement who set the tone for the next 100 years. First prominent AA politicians. Got equal AA CRs. HELP: fought to raise the voices of AAs in courts. Set path for future leaders. Took advantage of positive AA feelings in north. HINDERANCE: not mass solidarity in communities so no actual change. Unproportional election rate.
  • #8: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HELP: TURNING POINT: first aid group that had an impact to AAs every-day lives. Set up system for self-help groups. HELP: Set up university, schools, housing and jobs. HINDERANCE: was only for the minority and no lasting impact.
  • #9: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT NURTRAL: TURNING POINT: allowed first legislation that encouraged formal segregation HELP: promised to help AAs in second ter. Accepted RRs policies. HINDERANCE: scandals/carpetbaggers took power. Allowed south and Supreme Court to legalise segregation.
  • #10: CIVILIAN GROUP HINDERANCE: TURNING POINT: first pressure group that used violence to oppress AAs. HELP: ended quickly. HINDERANCE: terror remained and AAs stopped voting. Formal segregation grew.
  • #11: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HELP: TURNING POINT: HELP: HINDERANCE:
  • #12: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HINDERANCE: TURNING POINT: AAs started to loose rights gained in 13th/EP as south created BC/JCL as segregation became legal. HELP: created small AA middle class. HINDERANCE: left AAs in poverty/uneducated with no help or way to move out of it as government turned against the/left them.
  • #13: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HINDERANCE: TURNING POINT: states made it legal and ignore actual violence towards AAs and set legal precedent for future segregation. HELP: brought together AAs in community. HINDERANCE: allowed AAs to be killed and made sure juries would not convict.
  • #14: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HINDERANCE: TURNING POINT: continued Johnson’s dickiness HELP: promised to get CR for everyone HINDERANCE: encouraged South's segregation. Republicans did nothing to honor Compromise.
  • #15: CIVILIAN GROUP NEUTRALITY: TURNING POINT: first northern group that ignored AAs while fighting for liberty. HELP: could of raised AA profile HINDERANCE: ignored AAs. Showed North’s disinterest.
  • #16: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT NEUTRALITY: TURNING POINT: first President to talk to AAs about the issues. HELP: talked to Booker T. HINDERANCE: did not really do anything.
  • #17: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HINDERANCE: TURNING POINT: continued with previous Presidents policies of ignoring South's immorality. HELP: Sat with Booker T. HINDERANCE: did not really do anything.
  • #18: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HINDERANCE: TURNING POINT: segregated government organisations HELP: HINDERANCE: fired AAs and split remaining into factions.
  • #19: CIVILIAN CAMPAIGNER HELP: TURNING POINT: first women campaigner against lynching that got northern sympathy. HELP: brought issue up for discussion in north. HINDERANCE: did not change laws and lynching continued.
  • #20: CIVILIAN CAMPAIGNER HELP: TURNING POINT: 1st prominent AA leader that had Presidential support. HELP: raised profile of AA problems and helped individual cases. HINDERANCE: did not change any laws and paranoid over critiques.
  • #21: CIVILIAN GROUP HELP: TURNING POINT: first prominent civilian group that demanded change for women/all AAs/convicts. HELP: rose profile of AA suffering and opposed BTWs moderate views. HINDERANCE: didn’t create any concrete/legal change. Lacked money/mass support.
  • #22: CIVILIAN GROUP HELP: TURNING POINT: backed by SC in case. First group to make change and last ages. HELP: rose profile of AA suffering and had leader. Helped future leader (MLK/PARKS) and cases (BROWM/GUINN) HINDERANCE: slow
  • #23: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HELP: TURNING POINT: HELP: HINDERANCE:
  • #24: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT NEUTRAL: TURNING POINT: first mass movement of AAs to north. HELP: enforced a strong AA culture/middle-class/away from violence HINDERANCE: still de facto segregation and ruling of whites. Race riots increased. Lost right to move. Segregated regiments
  • #25: CIVILIAN CAMPAIGNER HELP: TURNING POINT: came close to developing mass support HELP: anticipated later ideas of Black Power/future leaders. Confirmed that AAs needed to help themselves. Created UNIA which continued. HINDERANCE: got deported no law change.
  • #26: CIVILIAN GROUP HELP: TURNING POINT: started winning SC cases and mass support HELP: overturned Arkansas rulings. Outlasted Garvey. Stuck to constitutional style. HINDERANCE: slow and lacked working-class support. Did not focus on social conditions
  • #27: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HELP: TURNING POINT: first communist help. HELP: Scottsboro boys/7000 members HINDERANCE: no mass solidarity/short impact/broke with pact
  • #28: CIVILIAN GROUP HELP: TURNING POINT: first communist supported group. HELP: ensured AAs ND rights/boycotted discriminating shops/well-supported HINDERANCE: boycott failed/support ended/short term
  • #29: CIVILIAN GROUP HINDERANCE: TURNING POINT: first use of media to influence public. HELP: short lived revival/spurred on CR campaigners. HINDERANCE: killed AAs/kept segregation high.
  • #30: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HINDERANCE: TURNING POINT: educated whites supporting AAs HELP: not very influential – play race card for votes HINDARANCE: kept segregation high with split schools and underfunding.
  • #31: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HINDERANCE: TURNING POINT: HELP: HINDERANCE: would not intervene.
  • #32: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HINDERANCE: TURNING POINT: HELP: promised to help AAs HINDERANCE: didn’t
  • #33: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HINDERANCE: TURNING POINT: lost AA support for Republicans forever HELP: was stupid so NAACP could undermine him HINDERANCE: tried to increase segregation.
  • #34: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HELP: TURNING POINT: first President in ages to want to help AAs HELP: got fairer legislation and pushed through what he could/wanted to help HINDERANCE: could do much – AAs not included in ND so as it could pass Congress
  • #35: CIVILIAN CAMPAIGNER HELP: TURNING POINT: AAs recognised in sports and entertainment HELP: mass AA support/gained support for CR movement HINDERANCE: no legal changes.
  • #36: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HELP: TURNING POINT: SC ruled in AAs favour HELP: set precedent for NAACP future P VS. F HINDERANCE: slow
  • #37: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HELP: TURNING POINT: HELP: HINDERANCE:
  • #38: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HELP: TURNING POINT: went to England and we were nice to them/realised irony HELP: started CORE/more white support HINDERANCE: no mass impact/CORE short/rose tensions
  • #39: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HINDERANCE: TURNING POINT: HELP: rose profile of AA fight HINDERANCE: fought against CR groups in order to stop communism.
  • #40: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HELP: TURNING POINT: changed climate in favour of AAs. Didn’t care about South HELP: changed climate/set path for legislation/included AAs in ‘Fair Deal’ HINDERANCE: did not change legislation
  • #41: CIVILIAN GROUP HELP: TURNING POINT: started making progress HELP: fought for AA CR continually with little bad press. Good lawyers. Focused on all areas of AA lives. HINDERANCE: by Communism so took little focus away from AAs. Slow
  • #42: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HELP: TURNING POINT: helped in Little Rock/Appointed liberal SC judges HELP: Little Rock HINDERANCE: didn’t enforce B vs. B immediately.
  • #43: COURT CASE HELP: TURNING POINT: overruled P vs. F/set legal precedent/got SC on side/set tide for MLK era HELP: overruled P vs. F/created way for de facto equality in south/could force segregation out of south HINDERANCE: not implemented straight after – 1957 only 12% integrated.
  • #44: CIVILIAN CAMPAIGNER HELP: TURNING POINT: mass media support for AA murder HELP: showed southern injustice/changing attitudes/decrease in atrocities. HINDERANCE: white juries would still not convict.
  • #45: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HELP: TURNING POINT: president got directly involved to enforce ruling HELP: showed northern determination to end segregation de facto HINDERANCE: only time Eisenhower intervened.
  • #47: CIVILIAN CAMPAIGNER HELP: TURNING POINT: gained mass working-class AA support/first AA campaign without whites/tried to take de facto action – not legal HELP: showed unity of AAs/a campaign all could get involved in. HINDERANCE: no change in the law directly/Parks harassed
  • #48: CIVILIAN CAMPAIGNER HELP: TURNING POINT: united all AAs – showed AA fight – great leader HELP: campaigns arguable cause of legislation in 60s HINDERANCE: died and approach did not have direct legal consequences.
  • #49: CIVILIAN GROUP LEGISLATION HELP: TURNING POINT: used medium of TV/students to impose message HELP: confrontation – forced response in win-win for AAs HINDERANCE: response was violent/SCNN split by BP in 70s.
  • #50: CIVILIAN GROUP LEGLISTAION HELP: TURNING POINT: whites/AAs working together HELP: rose awareness/presidential support HINDERANCE: no actual law changes directly and short-lived.
  • #51: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HELP: TURNING POINT: enforced SC rulings HELP: acted on behalf of AAs/brother pushed positive legalisation through and enforced it. HINDERANCE: not involved until FR
  • #52: CIVILIAN EVENT HELP: TURNING POINT: successful march HELP: presidential interest/TV created mass world-wide support HINDERANCE: high-schoolers hurt/businesses conceded to raise profits
  • #53: CIVILIAN EVENT HELP: TURNING POINT: united all CR campaigners/AA/whites HELP: powerful/speech memorable/showed contrast HINDERANCE: undercurrent of divisions within CR groups
  • #54: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HELP: TURNING POINT: used southern ties to actually help AAs as no fear of them opposing him HELP: pushed through 64 CRA and 65 VRA HINDERANCE: not consistent
  • #55: FEDERAL LEGLISLATION HELP: TURNING POINT: made de jure segregation illegal after 100 years/first coalition and unbiased Congress HELP: broke south/made campaign hopes widen HINDERANCE: not de facto
  • #56: FEDERAL LEGLISLATION HELP: TURNING POINT: AAs finally got de facto voting HELP: made illegal all voting conditions from early 19th DS HINDERANCE: had to be forcible enforced
  • #57: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HELP: TURNING POINT: HELP: HINDERANCE:
  • #58: FEDERAL PROBLEMS HINDERANCE: TURNING POINT: showed how ineffective legal changes were HELP: brought communities together HINDERANCE: not de facto changes – even worse
  • #59: CIVILIAN CAMPAIGNER HELP: TURNING POINT: first campaigner focussing on social northern problems in mildly violent way HELP: influenced next 50 of CR campaigns. Helped Northern AAs social problems HINDERANCE: died/extreme/classed with MLK so broke unity.
  • #60: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HELP: TURNING POINT: used southern ties to actually help AAs as no fear of them opposing him HELP: pushed through 64 CRA and 65 VRA HINDERANCE: not consistent/Vietnam
  • #61: CIVILIAN CAMPAIGNER HELP: TURNING POINT: realised campaign was not working and tried to change HELP: helped northern AAs de facto/spoke out against Vietnam HINDERANCE: lost federal support/blocked by racist white northerners/died and that encouraged violence.
  • #62: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HINDERANCE: TURNING POINT: first war to disadvantage AAs HELP: rose commitment to fight/opened MLK’s eyes to problem HINDERANCE: took away support/money from CRs
  • #63: CIVILIAN GROUP HELP: TURNING POINT: formed a violent, attacking CR group for de facto change HELP: would no longer stand for inequality HINDERANCE: views were extreme and tactics dangerous to losing public support
  • #64: CIVILIAN GROUP HELP: TURNING POINT: Made AAs proud of heritage. Supported economic/social problems/militant HELP: gained huge support/showed AA power HINDERANCE: lost white support/ruined after shot-outs
  • #65: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HELP: TURNING POINT: first time all 3 worked together HELP: enforced de facto change after 60s legal changes HINDERANCE: only to kill TUs and help stopped after promising start and was already in place, just allowed it to continue
  • #66: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HELP: TURNING POINT: SC ruled in AAs favour for desegregated education HELP: stopped de jure segregation and allowed bussing/HE HINDERANCE: lost interest on bussing and slow
  • #67: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HINDERANCE: TURNING POINT: first AA Transport Secretary. HELP: moderate AA CR passed. Appointed Coleman HINDERANCE: 90% voted against and supported anti-bussing legislation.
  • #68: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HELP: TURNING POINT: HELP: still supported AAs HINDERANCE: lacked knowledge/support to create major change.
  • #69: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HINDERANCE: TURNING POINT: first president in ages to be a dick HELP: Congress just opposed him and did whatever HINDERANCE: appointed conservative judges and no AAs into his administration
  • #70: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HINDERANCE: TURNING POINT: HELP: liberal at start HINDERANCE: vetoed ‘unfit’ bills
  • #71: FEDERAL LEGLISLATION HELP: TURNING POINT: HELP: allowed AAs to vote and get more public office seats HINDERANCE: didn’t vote so lost power.
  • #72: CIVILIAN CAMPAIGNER HELP: TURNING POINT: first AA to come 2nd. HELP: white support. First leader since MLK. United all minorities HINDERANCE: old-fashioned
  • #73: FEDERAL LEGLISLATION HINDERANCE: TURNING POINT: broke shared suffering HELP: HINDERANCE: took away poor leaders/help
  • #74: FEDERAL LEGLISLATION HINDERANCE: TURNING POINT: HELP: HINDERANCE: showed police brutality/white jury ignorance/riots killed 50