Which was true of the North during the war years?

Question

1) The Jim Crow system was as strong as it was in the South.
2) There was no legal or actual segregation.
3) African Americans faced discrimination in employment, housing, and education.
4) African Americans received preferential treatment from government agencies.

World war ll

Answer 1

Number 3. Jim crow was in the south post civil war, no prefferential treatment was given to blacks till after the civil rights movement in the 60's, and there was legal segregation in government agencies including the military at the time.

Answer 2

The Jim Crow system of "seperate but equal" wasn't set up until after the Civil War, so that point is immaterial. There was segregation in some Northern states, and it was legalized in the form of "Black Codes". These codes basically said no African Americans could be in a specified jurisdiction unless they were in the employ of whites as servants or messengers of some sort. I am most familiar with Southern Illinois, so will address this question from that point of view. Carrier Mills was a town in deep southeastern Illinois that was founded by runaway slaves. The laws kept the African Americans there. When Civil War erupted, a huge influx of African Americans swamped Cairo and Carbondale. Laws prevented them from moving to other cities in the state further north.

These former slaves faced discrimination in employment, housing, and education in the North. When the Union finally started accepting black soldiers, their pay was less than that of white soldiers, and all officers were white. These units were often given duties like digging graves after a battle. As I said before, certain cities (in Illinois at least) kept blacks out. I know that the oldest cemetery in Carbondale Illinois, which dates back to a time before the Civil War, had a special section for internments of blacks, many of whom died in an epidemic during the war. Education was probably one of the few areas where blacks were given a chance, although segregated schools in the North were the rule and not the exception. But people like G.W. Carver were allowed to go to state college (as opposed to an all-black college as they have in the South) if they showed they had the academic prowress to succeed.

I have not heard of any African Americans receiving preferential treatment from government agencies except in one specific instance--when asked if freed slaves should be allowed to vote, Lincoln said that any who fought for the Union should be given that right. As far as I know, this went for polling places in the North as well as the South.

Answer 3

Which War?

Answer 4

there was no north in the 2nd World War

what are you talking about?