the movement brought about significant change and improvement between 1963 and 1965 for racial equality. Congress on the other hand‚ did much to weaken the civil rights Acts‚ for example senator Thurmond staged the longest one person filibuster in American history to try and kill the 1957 bill‚ which prolonged the success of the movement to an extent as the longer time it took Bills to be put into place‚ the less equality progress could be made. The movement received a large amount of local opposition
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“Progress had been made by black Americans in the period 1900-1945.” How valid is this statement? Progress was definitely made in the years 1900-1945 by black Americans; however the amounts of progress varied in the North and South of America‚ the North appeared to have made more progress by 1945 than the South. The progress also varied depending on the area‚ such as political‚ social and economic aspects. Socially‚ the North of America had made more progress than the South. The North experienced
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Firstly black Americans faced problems in the south because of lynching and the Jim Crow Laws. Lynching meant that racist white Americans would put the law into their own hands and punish black people whenever they please. They would hang the victim from a tree. In 1897 123 black people were lynched in the south‚ 84 in 1903 and 61 in 1921. The police would turn a blind eye and made no effort to stop lynching from happening. Even though slavery ended in 1865 black people faced the threat of violence
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Blacks in the USA in 1945 were not considered as equal; the treatment of people was based on their skin colour‚ a practice that had been going on for many years before‚ even after the Reconstruction of society after the Civil War in which the blacks were "liberated" from slavery. In theory‚ blacks were free to work and live where they wanted‚ but the figures at the time told a different story: by 1960‚ around 17% of the workforce of "white-collar" workers‚ i.e. professional‚ technical‚ administration
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How far did conditions improve for Black Americans between 1945 and 1955? Intro Before the outbreak of war there was general hostility towards Black Americans‚ Lynching’s and beatings were quite common in the Deep South. However due to the huge amount of volunteer black Americans who joined to fight for ‘liberty and freedom’ in Europe many also joined to fight two wars‚ to fight the war of liberty and freedom at home. When black soldiers returned to their country many were still met with the
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The decade following up to WW2 there was general hostility towards Black Americans‚ lynching’s and beatings were quite common in the Deep South. Due to the huge amount of volunteered/conscripted black Americans who joined to fight for ‘liberty and freedom’ in Europe‚ many also fought the war of liberty and freedom at home. When black soldiers returned majority were still met with the same segregation and racism that they had felt when they left. However you could see some improvements in political
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In the introduction to the American and Society Since 1945‚ Leonard Quart and Albert Auster discusses the importance of films as it relates to our society and the way we think. Quart and Auster uses different forms of critiques to highlight the importance of films in our modern society. They argue that films connect with society in a manner that literature and other art forms fail to do. As Arthur Schlensinger Jr. has said‚ “American imagination suggests all the more strongly that movies have
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Between the years of 1945 and 1980‚ American society was experiencing significant shifts in various aspects such as societal norms‚ government policies‚ and advocacy movements. For many of these changes‚ it was hard to tell whether they painted a liberal or a conservative future for the United States. It seemed like there was a constant back and forth between liberal and conservative ideologies. At times‚ conservative values dominated‚ emphasizing traditional norms and limited government intervention
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that the years 1945-55 saw only limited progress in improving the status of African Americans? Between the years 1945-55 the rights of African Americans improved slightly‚ with improvement to social rights and the introduction of taking civil right cases to the supreme courts. Despite the marginal improvement in America I believe that the years 1945-55 only saw limited progress. Under President Truman some steps in the right direction were taken‚ even after the African Americans fought for the US
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How far did the position of Black Americans improve in the years 1945-1955? In the decade succeeding World War 2 the black citizens faced an America in which segregation and discrimination were legally enforced in all walks of life from school to public facilities. Black Americans were still seen as second class citizens deprived of rights that impacted every aspect of their life. However‚ after black soldiers had fought side by side with white soldiers in Europe a rise in consciousness began
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