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African Americans
US Civil Rights
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Number of blacks who voted in first elections | 700,000 |
| Number of black congress members during Reconstruction | 5 |
| President who sacked all black federal employees | Woodrow Wilson |
| Leader of the National Association of Coloured Women | Ida B Wells |
| Organisation set up by Du Bois in 1909 | NAACP |
| Membership of NAACP by 1930 | 50,000 |
| First black congressman since 1900 | Oscar de Priest 1928 |
| Size of Martin Luther King's Freedom march to Washington | 250,000 |
| Increase in Mississippi black voters after 1965 Voting Act | From 6% in 1964 to 67% in 1968 |
| New leader of the civil rights movement in the 1980s | Jesse Jackson |
| Numbers of African Americans in public offic jobs by 1992 | 8000 |
| Percentage of African Americans in Congress 1992 | 8% |
| Name given to state segregation laws | Jim Crow laws |
| Legal precedent set in 1896 | Plessey v Ferguson |
| Number of blacks who served in World War I | 350,000 |
| Membership of the Ku Klux Klan in 1924 | 5,000,000 |
| Number of blacks who moved north during World War Two | 500,000 |
| Founder of CORE in 1942 | James Farmer |
| President who desegregated the armed forces in 1948 | Truman |
| First key anti-segregation protest | Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955 |
| Organisation set up by Martin Luther King | SCLC |
| Number of southern towns desegregated by 1961 | 810 |
| Percentage of young black men in prison or on probation in 1992 | 23% |
| Percentage of black farmers who owned their own land by 1910 | 25% |
| Number of black parallel businesses set up by 1915 | 30,000 |
| Institute set up by Booker T Washington | Tuskegee Institute |
| President who banned discrimination in federal government | FDR |
| Fraction of blacks who earned less than $5,000 a year in 1960s | 1/3 |
| Level of unemployment among African Americans in 1992 | Twice as high as white level of unemployment |
| Percentage of blacks who graduated from high school in 1992 | 76% |
| Percentage of black families who were middle class | 40% |
| Percentage of African Americans who could not read or write in 1890 | 65% |
| Amount of money spent on white education compared to black education in Carolina in 1880s | 4 times more |
| Court case which overturned Plessey v Ferguson | Brown v Board of Education 1954 |
| Percentage of schools integrated by 1957 | Less than 12% |
| Southern groups set up to oppose integration of schools | White Citizen Councils |
| President who intervened at Little Rock High School 1957 | Eisenhower |
| Attorney General who insured integration of universities | Robert Kennedy |
| Policy of Richard Nixon | Affirmative Action |
| Policy used to integrate schools | Bussing |
| President who opposed Affirmative Action | Reagan |
| President who replaced Abraham Lincoln | Andrew Johnson |
| Amendment which gave freed slaves equal protection under the law | 14th Amendment |
| Amendment which forbade the denial of the vote on grounds of race | 15th Amendment |
| Year that Reconstruction ended | 1877 |
| Presidents who consulted Booker T Washington | Roosevelt and Taft |
| Organisation set up by Marcus Garvey in 1914 | UNIA |
| Percentage of black families on relief in 1935 | 30% |
| 1938 court case which ruled that separate must be equal | Gaines v Canada |
| Year of race riot in Detroit | 1943 |
| Number of states which had adopted Roosevelt fair employment regulations by 1953 | 20 |
| Increase in black registered voters between 1940 and 1947 | 2% to 12% |
| Civil rights organisation which staged sit-ins | SNCC |
| Date of the Birmingham Riot | 3 April 1963 |
| Number of people arrested during the Watts riots in 1965 | 4000 |
| Percentage of blacks who voted for Democrat Jimmy Carter in 1976 | 90% |
| Number of black judges appointed by Carter | 37 |
| Percentage of receivers of housing subsidies who were African Americans | 34% |
| Percentage of President Bush's judicial appointments who were from ethnic minorities | 6.9% |
| Percentage of blacks who actually voted in 1976 | Less than 50% |
| Rate of unemployment among African Americans in 1992 | 14.2% |
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