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What did the NAACP lobbying efforts influence the House of Representatives to pass in 1922?
Anti lynching legislation
What was the most immediate goal of the NAACP during the 1920s?
lobbied for anti-lynching laws
Who was the group behind 1920s anti-lynching campaign?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
What was the reason for founding the NAACP?
William du bois wanted to stop peonage and lynching, and obviously segregation.
What was an example of FDR's lack of support for civil rights?
he did not support a bill against lynching. welcome
Did Franklin D Roosevelt not support anti-lynching?
FDR did not support a federal anti-lynching. FDR feared that if he supported the law, he would lose the votes of the southern house and senate members. Had he supported the law, he would not have been able to pass any of his other important and influencial laws.
What was the primary means by which the NAACP pursued civil rights during the first half of the twentieth century?
Fights against school segregation. Lobbying for an anti-lynching bill. Legal challenges to disfranchisement and segregation, and lobbying for a federal anti-lynching bill.
Did the NAACP play a part in the new deal?
Under constant pressure from the NAACP, from Eleanor Roosevelt, and from individual Black leaders, FDR and his New Dealers made sure that Black Americans shared in the relief programs. Blacks moved into more than a third of new housing units constructed by the federal government during the Depression. In 1932, 75 percent of voting Blacks were Republican. By 1936, thanks to the NAACP and FDR, 75 percent of voting Blacks were Democratic.
Who was Ida b wells?
Ida Bell (B) Wells was born on July 16th, 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi. After the unfair lynching of three of her friends, she became a crusader against lynching and unfairness towards African-Americans. As a journalist, Wells wrote many articles concerning lynching and African-American rights. She was also one of the founders of NAACP and wrote Southern Horrors: Lynch Law and All Its Phases. ====== ======
Who is Ida Bell Wells-Barnett?
an anti-lynching crusader a woman's rights activist a passionate crusader against racism journalist and teacher who spoke out on racial issues a civil rights pioneer and one of the founders of the NAACP
How did the blacks fare during the Great Depression?
FDR was concentrating on the economic problems for the workers, including minorities. But on the issue of civil rights, FDR was silent. No major civil rights laws were passed. The Democratic Party depended upon the "Solid South" for support and FDR overlooked things like the Jim Crow Laws of southern states. He even refused to give his support to an anti-lynching bill and he allowed segregation of work gangs on federal projects. Under pressure from the NAACP and Eleanor Roosevelt, and other minority leaders, the New Dealers made sure Blacks shared in relief programs. Black people moved into more than a third of new housing units constructed by the federal government.
Was segregation a part of the Great Depression?
FDR was concentrating on the economic problems for the workers, including minorities. But on the issue of civil rights, FDR was silent. No major civil rights laws were passed. The Democratic Party depended upon the "Solid South" for support and FDR overlooked things like the Jim Crow Laws of southern states. He even refused to give his support to an anti-lynching bill and he allowed segregation of work gangs on federal projects. Under pressure from the NAACP and Eleanor Roosevelt, and other minority leaders, the New Dealers made sure Blacks shared in relief programs. Black people moved into more than a third of new housing units constructed by the federal government.
