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African Americans 1950's

Published on Nov 21, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE 1950'S

BY GRAYSON JONES

SEPERATE BUT EQUAL

  • Segregation policies still existed in the United States in the 1950's
  • Separate But Equal doctrine had been the law since the 1890's
  • Separate bathrooms, schools, restrauntes, hotels, and water fountains
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AFRICAN AMERICAN CHURCHES

  • Churches united the African American community
  • Churches became meeting places to end discrimination
  • Clergymen, leaders, and social activists met
  • They're goal was to plan demonstrations, boycotts, and other events

DISCRIMINATION AND TERRITORY

  • Legal in many places in the South
  • African Americans lived in Chicago, New York, Detroit, Cleveland, etc.
  • Hoped to escape poverty and secure better jobs
  • Harlem was the typical black urban ghetto located in New York
  • Living conditions were very poor
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HISTORICAL STATISTICS

  • Infant mortality was 3 times higher than in white communities
  • 50% of African Americans in New York made less than 4,000 a year
  • 80% of whites made more income than African Americans
  • Blacks rarely made half as a white man or woman.

POST WORLD WAR 2

  • African Americans in the north benefited from postwar prosperity
  • They tried to leave the ghettoes
  • Bank companies would only issue loans to blacks to live in a black neighborhood
  • Whites wouldn't sell their homes to African Americans
  • Blacks would "invade"white neighborhoods
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