Religion and Race

• Religion Fundamentalism

  • Following the belief of the Christian Fundamentalists association.
• Religious fundamentalists

  • They were protestants who believed everything in the bible must be taken seriously and not questioned.
  • Attend church frequently
  • Disliked the teaching of the theory of evolution
• The Bible Belt

  • A part of America where strict Christians lived
  • They didn't accept the theory of evolution but believed the theory of creation.
  • Disliked provocative clothing and dancing and gambling.
  • Seen as keen supporters of Prohibition and the KKK
• The Monkey trial

  • A new law passed in 6 states prohibiting the teaching of Darwins theory.
  • However, a biology teacher John Scopes ignored the law and taught the theory to his students.
  • Resulted in him going to court.
• Monkey Trial results

  • Scopes was found guilty and charged $100
  • 1929 - fixed laws were passed in six states banning the teaching of Darwins theory.
• Segregation

  • 'Jim Crow laws'
  • Black and white people were separated in schools, bars and public places.
  • Black people found it difficult to get fair treatment and were intimidated.
• Northern States

  • Treatment was often less aggressive and violent than southern.
  • Black Americans were employed in low paid jobs.
  • Lived in poorer areas n comparison to white people.
  • NO segregation
• Great Migration

  • Migration from the south to the north as Northern states seemed as a better opportunity in comparison to the strict enforcements in the Southern States.
• Southern States

  • Segregation was enforced
• Southern states

  • Segregation was enforced
  • Most black people lived in chronic poverty
• KKK

  • The Ku Klux Klan
  • Aimed terrorise black people recently freed from slavery.
  • White supremacists
• KKK Actions

  • Dressed in white robes
  • Beat up and mutilated black people
  • Carried out lynchings
• KKK Support

  • BY 1920, 100000 members
  • 1925, Gained 5 million members
  • The growth of the klan rose due to industrialisation
• The birth of Nation

  • 1915
  • The film attracted large audiences and aimed to reinforce the idea of white supremacy.
• UNIA

  • Marcus Garvey
  • 250,000 members
• Aim of the UNIA

  • Believed black people should not partake in white society
  • Encouraged black people to set up their own businesses and to go back to Africa and establish a government.
  • 1925, Garvey was put in prison for misleading people.
• The NAACP

  • William Du Bois
  • 1919, 90000 Members
• Aim of the NAACP

  • Give everyone equal opportunities
  • Wanted to fight segregation by using petitions and campaigns against lynchings.
  • Failed to banned lynchings but there was a great reduction in lynchings.