conflict brought on many changes that would highlight African American civil rights‚ for example it created many jobs for black people‚ not only in the defence industry but also to meet growing labour demand. Although between 1945-1955 there was indefinitely progress made for the position of black Americans‚ there were also limitations to that progress. The population of cities in the north such as Detroit grew dramatically as black people migrated during the war. Although there was a lot more
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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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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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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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How accurate is it to say that the status of black people in the US changed very little in the years 1945-1955? I would agree with this statement but I would also think there are aspects of the status of black people that did change in these years and the impacts of which could be debated. In 1945‚ the Second World War ended. Black people’s status hadn’t changed but their attitudes had. They started to question why they were fighting for freedom in other countries‚ against the Nazi oppression
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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 accurate is it to say that the status of black people in the USA changed very little in the years 1945-1955? I would agree with this statement and say that the status of black people did not change much between the years of 1945 to 1955‚ I believe that there is a lot of evidence to back me up in my decision‚ for example‚ the federal intervention caused by the actions of Harry Truman‚ direct action from civil rights groups and the role of African Americans within society in this time period
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How far do you agree that the years 1945-1955 saw only limited progress in improving the status of African-Americans? By 1955‚ Civil Rights for African-Americans had still not fully been achieved in northern and southern states but there had definitely been some improvement in the status of black people. The main factors preventing equality for black Americans in 1945 were casual discrimination and legalised segregation permitted by Jim Crow Laws‚ which continued through to 1955. This‚ along with
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How far is it accurate to describe black Americans as second class citizens in the years 1945-55? The years 1945-55 could be seen as a time of significant change for black African Americans. Such as segregated schools abolished. Truman also fuelled some positive changes. However equally these changes might not be as big compared to the negative events that happened. Such as the attack on Emmet Till and returning black service men. It could be argued that in the years 1945-55 Blacks were
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How far do you agree 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
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