Eisenhower and Civil Rights

Question 1

Civil Rights Act 1957

Answer 1

-First civil rights federal law in 82 years
-Further laws needed to be passed

Question 2

Public support for Martin Luther King

Answer 2

-Leader of the Civil Rights movement
-Improves public image, does it purely for votes

Question 3

Integration between US military forces

Answer 3

-All federally controlled schools for military children to desegregate
-Desegregation happens 1954, 6 years after Truman had acted

Question 4

Civil Rights Act 1960

Answer 4

-Severe punishments for white segregationists
-Prospect of jail did not deter Southern politicians form organising ways in which to deny black votes

Question 5

Earl Warren: Chief of justice

Answer 5

-Liberal judge (Brown vs education)
-Some schools rebel against desegregation (Little Rock)