Was life universally bad for Black Americans? Aims (pick which level your working at): Grade G-D: Some evidence of different conditions faced by black people in USA before Rosa Parks. Grade C/B: Detailed evidence and explanations of what USA was like for black Americans. Grade A/A*: Detailed analysis of the variety of conditions facing black Americans Starter What do you think is happening in the picture below?
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Was life universally bad for Black Americans?Aims (pick which level your working at):
Grade G-D: Some evidence of different conditions faced by black people in USA before Rosa Parks.
Grade C/B: Detailed evidence and explanations of what USA was like for black Americans.
Grade A/A*: Detailed analysis of the variety of conditions facing black Americans
StarterWhat do you think is happening in the picture below?
• What evidence have you seen so far that this behaviour was typical before the success of the Civil Rights movement?
Was it all bad for black Americans?
• Look at the source sheet and fill in the table.
Source Number:
What does it tell you about life as a black American before 1950s?
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• What was life like for black Americans before WW2? Explain your answer
What clues does this picture give you in relation to the impact WW2 had on black people?
What impact did WW2 have on black peoples lives?
AimC-B: to describe what impact WW2 had on black people’s lives
A-A*: to explain the importance of WW2 to black people.
Background Info:•1 million black Americans served in WW2.
•At the beginning of the war there were only 12 black officers.
•Black people were usually assigned to all black units
•Soldiers would often be given medial jobs such as cooks and labourers.
•As the war developed more racially integrated units became popular because General Eisenhower believed in them.
•By the end of the war integrated units and black officers increased significantly, and several black people even became pilots.
Black Americans found themselves fighting for democracy and freedom against the tyranny of Nazi Germany and the oppressive rule of Japan. In Europe Hitler was condemned for his racial policies and promoting the Aryan Race.. Yet black people lived in a country were they were seen as second class citizens, with no rights to, and discrimination in education and jobs.
• Accordingly, civil rights leaders called for a “Double V” campaign calling for the defeat of Nazism in Europe and victory over racism at
• Under pressure, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802, it outlawed discrimination in the U.S. civil service and in private establishments receiving federal defense contracts.
• Executive Order 8802 did not extend to the U.S. armed forces.
“On the home front …your issuance of Executive Order 8802 …to fight against the discriminatory employment practices …used against Negroes…is…part of the world struggle against tyranny.”
“But the picture in our country is marred by one the strangest paradoxes in our whole fight against world fascism. The U.S. Armed Forces, to fight for World Democracy, is within itself undemocratic.”
“The undemocratic policy of Jim Crow and segregation is practiced by our Armed Forces against its Negro members. Totally inadequate opportunities are given to the Negro members…”
“Just as our government in civilian life, is carrying on a fight for the full integration of the Negro…so in the Armed Forces our government must take up the same fight for the full integration…into all phases of our fighting…”
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• “…another Executive Order is now needed…whereby the Negro soldiers would be integrated…as fighting men, instead of segregated…housekeepers.”
Respectfully yours, Charles F. Wilson, 36794590 Private, Air Corps