Social status

Question 1

knowledge

Answer 1

• JFK resigned from a prestigious basketball club which refused to accept black people
• he had also promised to end discrimination in the housing markets

Question 2

analysis

Answer 2

• brought attention to discrimination and presented a positive role model
• he claimed that racism damaged international reputation and people began to take the issue more seriously.

Question 3

analysis+

Answer 3

in 1961 JFK failed to propose any civil rights legislation as he feared losing support

Question 4

evaluation

Answer 4

Lyndon B johnson was responsible for the civil rights act, a “legislative revolution” and his biographer stated that his “role in reaching out to americas disadvantaged and combining racial segregation was perhaps his most important contribution to recent US history”