Homework – Monday 4/24

Due Tuesday, 4/25

Answer in complete sentences on another sheet of paper.  Some questions may need more than one sentence to answer them.  Use pages 701 – 702.

1.  What was the 1890 Louisiana segregation law?

2.  What was the ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson?

3.  What were Jim Crow laws?

4.  Give 4 examples of places that were segregated in the South.

5.  How did black facilities compare to white areas?

6.  During WWI, when many African Americans moved to the North, what were 3 reactions of northern whites?

7.  Why were there new job opportunities for African Americans, Latinos, and white women during WWII?

8.  Why did black WWII veterans return ready to fight for more rights?

9.  Besides challenging Jim Crow laws, what else did civil rights organizations campaign for?

10.  What had FDR done during WWII that laid the groundwork for later civil rights protests?