1930s Civil rights Movement

He created the Legal Department of the NAACP.

(a)  

Who were the Scottsboro Boys?

• An African American band that toured Europe during World War I and immediately after.

• 9 young African Americans wrongly accused and convicted of raping two White women on a train and were not exonerated until 2013.

• The starting line-up for the 1934 Brooklyn Dodgers that started a dynasty of championships for the team.

• A violent faction of the Ku Klux Klan that terrorized rural Alabama in the 1930s.

The Second Amenia Conference was a failed effort to refocus the NAACP more on economic issues

• True

• False

What was the primary result of the Supreme Court case Nixon v. Condon? In what state did the case originate?

This person was the dean of the law school at Howard University and a federal judge.

• Julian Bond

• William Henry Hastie

• Henry David Thoreau

• Ella Jo Baker

In the 1930s, the federal government began a public works project in the south. The African Americans employed on the project were not payed the same nor treated the same as the other employees. The NAACP launched an undercover investigation into the project. As a result, the government changed its policies and improved their treatment and pay for African American employees.

What was the name of this project?

(a)  

What was the main idea behind the pamphlet "Where the Trouble Really lies"?

• solving worker problems will make solving racial problems easier

• competition between White immigrants and African Americans for jobs; need for unions to be reformed.

• urban renewal in Chicago increased segregation and created larger ghettos.

• Initially, strikebreaking afforded African Americans a foot in the door to good paying manufacturing / industrial jobs.

What was the main idea behind the pamphlet "White vs. Black Workers: A Tragedy"?

• Initially, strikebreaking afforded African Americans a foot in the door to good paying manufacturing / industrial jobs.

• urban renewal in Chicago increased segregation and created larger ghettos.

• competition between White immigrants and African Americans for jobs; need for unions to be reformed.

• solving worker problems will make solving racial problems easier

What was the main idea behind the pamphlet "Urban Renewal and the Negro in Chicago"?

• solving worker problems will make solving racial problems easier

• competition between White immigrants and African Americans for jobs; need for unions to be reformed.

• urban renewal in Chicago increased segregation and created larger ghettos.

• Initially, strikebreaking afforded African Americans a foot in the door to good paying manufacturing / industrial jobs.

What was the main idea behind the pamphlet "Can We Afford to Strikebreak"?

• solving worker problems will make solving racial problems easier

• Initially, strikebreaking afforded African Americans a foot in the door to good paying manufacturing / industrial jobs.

• urban renewal in Chicago increased segregation and created larger ghettos.

• competition between White immigrants and African Americans for jobs; need for unions to be reformed.