African Americans in the 1920's

• the Jim Crow laws were laws that controlled the freedom of black African americans in the southern states
• What did the Jim Crow Laws mean that Black African Americans experienced?

  segregation
• black African Americans were denied access to good education and jobs
• Black African Americans could not vote
• "the birth of a nation" - 1927, gloried the KKK
• Why was the Ku Klux Klan formed in the 1850s and rose to prominence after the American Civil War?

  too keep white people in control of the USA
• Which of the states in America were particularly prevalent for Klan membership and Black African American's had to deal with severe racism?

  southern states
• lynching was hanging without trial
• By 1924, how many members did the KKK have?

  4.5M
• The governors of Oregon and Oklahoma were members of the KKK
• The KKK also targeted what other groups?

  Anyone who wasn't a WASP - white anglo Saxon protestant
• Due to the poverty, intimidation and discrimination, many Black African Americans moved north to Chicago and New York. By how much did these cities populations increase?

  the population doubled in the 1920's
• The first Africans had been brought to the USA as what?

  slaves
• By the time slavery ended in 1865, there more African Americans than White Americans in the southern states of America.
• Why did white state governments introduce laws to control the freedom of Black African Americans?

  they feared the power of this large group of citizens