American South

• KKK a group of white protestants who use violence against black Americans and others
• Violence and Intimidation Black people were subjected to violence this created a climate of fear and further reinforced the notion of inferior
• Jim Crow laws were laws that enforced racial segregation in the south.
• Jim crow laws 1876-1965
• WW2 1939-1945
• American civil war 1861-1865
• In Alabama, the city of Birmingham became known as ‘Bombingham’ due to the number of Ku Klux Klan bombs
• KKK Dec 24 1865
• Naacp: National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People.
• Civil rights that are granted to citizens by a government
• Emancipation Proclamation Freeing of all slaves across America in 1863
• Inferior a person lower another in rank status or abilty
• Lynching Executing someone (usually by hanging) without legal trial
• Executive Order 9981 was the desegregation of the US army in 1948
• Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against racial segregation on public transport