Chapter 29.1

World war II

World war II

________ set the stage for many civil right movements, demand of soldiers in the early 1940s created a shortage for white male laborers.

Desegregation camp

What was largely led by NAACP (since 1909)

Plessy

________ v. Ferguson-- In 1890 Louisiana passed a law requiring rail roades to provide "equal but separate accommodation for white and other races.

Houston

________ focused on inequality between the separate school,

JIM CROW LAWS

________- aimed at separating races, these laws forbid marriage between black and white, schools, streetcars, waiting rooms, railroad coaches, elevators, public restrooms all were separated.

African Americans

________ served in military forces which needed so many fighting men that they had to end their discriminatory policies.