HIST 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Dean Acheson, African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–1968), Chester Bowles
16 Nov 2017
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Great depression & great migration in civil rights. In 1929, the great depression devastated the united states, especially the rural south. Hundreds of thousands of black sharecroppers left the land for the cities, leaving behind abandoned fields and homes. Even negro jobs -- jobs traditionally held by blacks, such as busboys, elevator operators, garbage men, porters, maids and cooks -- were sought by desperate unemployed whites. In 1913, president woodrow wilson adopted jim crow policies when he dismissed 15 out of 17 black supervisors who has been appointed to federal jobs and replaced them with white civil servants. Not exclusively in the south, common misconception. In the south there were markers of segregation (ex: white water fountain vs colored) but in the north it was more subtle because it wasn"t part of the law. Used this lack of legislation to act as though they were superior but it was more of a sense of hypocrisy.
