paper 1: list of legislations

Question 1

what happened on the 29th of August 1957?

Answer 1

civil rights act sets up a civil rights commission and gives the federal justice department more rights to supervise voter registration

Question 2

what happened 6th of may 1960?

Answer 2

civil rights act makes it a crime to obstruct federal orders by threat of force and authorises federal ‘referees’ for voting

Question 3

what happened 20th November 1962?

Answer 3

president Kennedy bans discrimination in allocation of federal housing

Question 4

what happened 2nd of July 1964?

Answer 4

civil rights act bans discrimination on the bases of sex or race in hiring, firing, and promoting

Question 5

what happened on the 6th of august 1965?

Answer 5

voting rights act is passed banning any attempts to stop people voting for their race

Question 6

what happened on the 21st of may?

Answer 6

emergency school aid act gives funding to schools that are desegregating or struggling after desegregating; there is a second of these acts two years later

Question 7

what happened on the 20th of April 1971?

Answer 7

Swann v Charlotte - Mecklenburg board of education upholds the policy of busing children out of poor areas to desegregated schools

Question 8

what happened on the 23rd of June 1972?

Answer 8

education amendments act restricts busing by giving more to inner city schools