How Much Progress Had Been Made By Black Americans Since The 1960s

Question 1

Civil rights / rulings

Interstate travel

Civil rights act

Voting rights act

Mixed marriage

Answer 1

Supreme Court ruled interstate travel must be desegregated

Banned segregation everywhere after March on Washington

Blacks could vote after Selma March

Mixed marriages were legal

Question 2

Education and housing

Schools and uni

Answer 2

Were desegregated and more black revived better education to improve employment

On 25% of blacks graduated in 1965 burin 1991 it rose to 38.7%

Better education = more money to buy better housing

Question 3

Extent of change and progress

Answer 3

Progress in transport education voting and integration

But more so for black middle class

Lower class= poverty for a 1/3 of blacks

Drug addiction and crime was more in lower black communities than in lower class white