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Race relations in the Southern United States in the 1930s …
Race relations in the Southern United States in the 1930s
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Differences between North and South
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North
More advanced
Against racism
Better treatment towards black people
Without segregation
States
Illinois
Delaware
Indiana
Iowa
Connecticut
Kansas
California
Kentucky
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Vermont
West Virginia
Wisconsin
South
Disrespect towards black people
Developmental delay
Most people were racist
Huge segregation
The best for white people
The worst for black people
States
Mississippi
Louisiana
Florida
Arkansas
Alabama
Carolina
North
South
Georgia
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Rosa Parks
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Future Importance
One of the most important figures in the fight against racial inequalities
Thanks to her black people would be empowered against segregation policies
Birth
1913, Alabama
Rosa in 1930
Faced the Great Depression
Leaving her wishes
To become a teacher
To study
Working as
Cleaner of houses
Seamstress
Fruit seller
Personal issues
Her mother passed away
Her grandmother passed away
She met Reymond Parks
Member of the NAACP
Her future husband
NAACP
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Attemps to change the organization
Because of the "Great Depression"
They reconsider
Mission
Tactics
Organization
Joel Spingard
Lost the interest in the Association
Didn't like the spirit of the Association
At the begining was
Thrilling program
Revolutionary for it's time
Gave them hope to solve this segregation problem
At that time there was
No hope
No program
Only cases
Conference
They wanted to gather
Younger independent thinking negroes with a
Strong character
Honest character
They requested
Imminence of basic change in the structure of
Political
Economic
Social
Logical necessity of resolute decision to
Junk old policies
Followed by a clear cut outlining of basically new
Philosophies
Policies
As a result
Ideas never transformed into changes
They formed a committe to re-organize
New Deal
They worked to see that black people were include in
New program without racism
But they didn't have the impact they wanted
Attemps to inject any anti-discrimination language were blocked by
Southern senators
The FDR's needed them for support
Congressmen
Basically the ones who resisted any change to the status quo
Tailored New Deal legislation to southern preferences
Roosevelt was afraid to touch this topic
Policymakers shared and interest in protecting the "value of whiteness"
Black people seem to be a burden on society
WIth some these laws they were supporting segregation
Great Depression
General context
Origin
United States
A major fall in stock prices
September 04, 1929
Became worldwide news
Stock market crash
Known as "Black Tuesday"
October 29, 1929
New Deal
Objective
Fight the effects of the Great Depression
Support the poorest layers
Reforming financial markets
Revitalizing an American economy wounded
By unemployment
Chain bankruptcies
Program implemented
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
President of the United States
Between 1933 and 1938
Context in the South
The problems of the Great Depression
Affected every group of Americans
The hardest-hit was African Americans
Were constantly out of work
Racial violence towards them increased
Social Policies
Reflected a qualitatively different sense of government's responsibility
Towards its citizens
Including African Americans
Crucial component in the structure of American racial stratification
The legislative record
Consistently racialized
Discriminatory
Welfare policy
Actively excluded blacks
Subjugated blacks
Differences between treatment
White people
Were in better schools
Had more rights
Sat in front of the bus
Drank in another pipe
Were superior to blacks
Black people
Were imprisoned without proves
Had less rights
Had to do whatever a white person said
Women couldn´t study
Ku Klux Klan
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Symbol of
Intolerance
Hatred for the other
White supremacy
Racial segregation
Creation
In Pulaski, Tennessee
After the American Civil War
Formed by six veterans
Klan membership exceeded 4 million people nationwide
Actions
Marched through the streets carrying banners which made threats of violence
Burned large wooden crosses beside the homes of people they wished to frighten
They carried out lynching
This includes
Kidnapping
Whipping
Mutilation and murder
Targets for the klan
Non-protestants
New inmigrants
Black Americans
Groups they considered to be threatening ‘the American way of life’
Known as the "Invisible Empire"
Members
Wore
White robes
Hoods to hide their identity
Had to be
American
White
At least 16 years old
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