Civil Rights Act 1964

Question 0

What did the act not address? (2)

Answer 0

Did not address inequalities in housing

Did not address black voting rights

Question 1

What did the act address? (3)

Answer 1

Outlawed segregation of all public facilities
Established commission of civil rights which was empowered to enforce desegregation
Outlawed racial discrimination against unemployment

Question 2

1964 Civil Rights Act: desegregation

Answer 2

The act forced 53 cities to desegregate

Question 3

Unemployment statistic ‘by 1968’

Answer 3

Black unemployment, by 1968, stood at 7%, which wasn’t that far off white unemployment, which stood at 5%.

Question 4

What did the 1964 Civil Rights Act do, generally?

Answer 4

It led to the wholesale dismantling of segregation in the Southern States

Question 5

Limitations of the act: by 1968 education

Answer 5

By 1968 58% of Black School children remained in segregated schools.

Question 6

Limitations of the act: by 1968 income

Answer 6

By 1968, average income of black workers was still on 61% of the average income for white workers