Civil Rights

• Right wing: conservative and traditional ( dictatorships)
• Left Wing: liberal and wanted change
• Democrats and Labour centre left
• Conservatives and republicans centre right
• Power of states override federal authority
• National Association for advancement of coloured people ( NAACP)
• Social racism: Jim Crow laws, segregation in schools, not allowed on the same bus or use the same sinks or sit on the same bench
• Economic: payed less than white people for doing same job, last hired first fired
• Sharecroppers mostly work in agriculture
• Stuck in a poverty cycle
• Political: hold little power in politics and very few have seats in the Supreme Court or house of representatives
• McCarthyism few could vote 3% in 1940 12% in 1947
• Registration is difficult literacy tests and poll tax
• Legal: Longer sentences compared to other races, blamed for crimes, police brutality, juries all white
• Plessey vs Ferguson triggered "separate but equal"
• Britain weaker = growth in nationalism
• MLK and Gandhi passive resistance
• Pan-African movement ( global united movement) works well in the struggle but afterwards someone has to have power/ be in charge
• Black Panther party and Malcom X
• Equal in war results in change of white attitudes and black attitudes
• More than 2.5 million African-Americans worked mostly in logistics
• Segregation in forces
• Allies against Nazis racist ideas
• Changes the mindset of the African-Americans
• Promoted self-governance of majority of the world
• National Association of advancement of coloured people ( NAACP)
• Use of Supreme Court (primary focus)
• Want to change system not mindset
• Aimed to undermine Plessey Vs Ferguson
• Legal Defence Fund- raise money and finance black lawyers
• Membership rose 1940: 50,000 1945: 450,000
• Congress of racial equality (CORE)
• Experience of African-Americans at home was characterized by segregation, discrimination, and lower economic status.
• The Great migration from the south to the north increased political awareness and members of the NAACP.
• Racial tensions increased during this period.
• A 1943 race riot in Detroit involved 100,000 people.
• The movie The Negro Soldier was released with the aim to end racial tension.
• Discrimination can be verbal assault or general abuse or ideas towards another race, culture or religion.
• Discrimination can also be economic with lower pay.
• Individual prejudice is a form of discrimination.