The achievements of civil protest

Question 1

What were some achievements of the civil rights movement to do with education?

Answer 1

• Sweatt Vs Painter (1950)
• Brown Vs Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
• Brown II (1955)
• Cooper Vs Aaron (1958)

Question 2

What were the achievements of Sweatt Vs Painter?

Answer 2

it established that black and white people were entitled to equal education

Question 3

What were the achievements of Brown Vs Board?

Answer 3

It established that a segregated education could never be an equal education

Question 4

What were the achievements of Brown II and Cooper Vs Aaron?

Answer 4

attempted to speed up integration

Question 5

By 1957 how many school districts in the south had desegregated?

Answer 5

750 out of 6300

Question 6

By 1957, what percentage of black students in southern school districts remained in segregated schools?

Answer 6

97%

Question 7

By 1968, what percentage of black students in southern schools remained in segregated schools?

Answer 7

58%

Question 8

How did the higher education act of 1965 affect the number of black students attending college?

Answer 8

It increased the number of black students attending college hugely during the late 60’s and early 70’s

Question 9

What were the achievements of the civil rights movement regarding transport?

Answer 9

• Morgan Vs Virginia (1946)
• Freedom Ride’s (1961)
• Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-1956)
• Browder Vs Gayle (1956)
• Civil Rights Act (19640

Question 10

What were the achievements of Morgan Vs Virginia?

Answer 10

It had successfully established that the segregation of interstate transport was illegal.

Question 11

What were the achievements of the Freedom Rides?

Answer 11

It forced the government to implement the desegregation of interstate transport.

Question 12

What were the achievements of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the later court case of Browder Vs Gayle?

Answer 12

led to the desegregation of transport in Montgomery. Browder Vs Gayle also established that the desegregation of transport was illegal.

Question 13

What were the achievements of the 1964 civil rights act in regards to transport?

Answer 13

It was necessary to enforce desegregation of transport in the south by giving the federal government power to enforce desegregation.

Question 14

What were the achievements of the Civil Rights Movement in regard to public places?

Answer 14

• Sit-ins like Greensboro (1960)

- Civil Rights Act (1964)

Question 15

What were the achievements of the Greensboro sit-ins and similar sit-ins up to 1963?

Answer 15

It probed to be an effective method to force local governments to desegregate public places

Question 16

By the end of 1963, in how many cities had sit-ins occured? And how many had desegregated restaurants and canteens?

Answer 16

• Sit-ins had occurred in 200 cities.

- 161 had desegregated restaurants and canteens.

Question 17

What did the authorities in Albany do in order to avoid sit-ins?

Answer 17

Closed public parks and even removed chairs from libraries

Question 18

How many more cities did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 force to desegregate?

Answer 18

53

Question 19

By 1965, how many southern cities had desegregated?

Answer 19

214

Question 20

How successful were Eisenhower’s Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960?

Answer 20

They were largely ineffective?

Question 21

By 1963 how many black southerners were registered to vote?

Answer 21

800,000 out of 20 million

Question 22

What were the achievements of the 1965 voting rights act?

Answer 22

• It increased black voter registration slightly in the south
• It increased black voter registration hugely in the north
• It increased the number of black people to be elected to governmental positions.

Question 23

Between 1965 and 1966 how many more black southerners were registered to vote?

Answer 23

230,000

Question 24

By 1966 how many of the southern states still had less than 50% of their black citizens registered to vote?

Answer 24

4

Question 25

In the North between 1960 and 1965 how had the number of black voters increased?

Answer 25

it increased from 4million to 6million

Question 26

Who was the first African Amercian to be elected mayor of an American City?

Answer 26

Robert C. Henry was elected mayor of Springfield, Ohio in 1966

Question 27

By 1968, how many of the 31 states with the highest proportion of black people, had introduced Fair Employment Practice Laws?

Answer 27

25

Question 28

What was the rate of black unemployment like compared to the national average during the 1950’s and early 1960’s?

Answer 28

approximately twice the national average

Question 29

What were the achievements of the 1964 Civil Rights Act in regards to Employment and Income?

Answer 29

it explicitly outlawed racial discrimination in the job market.

Question 30

In 1965 what was the rate of black income compared to the national average?

Answer 30

The rate of income of black workers was 53% of the national average

Question 31

By 1968 what was the percentage of black unemployment compared to white unemployment?

Answer 31

Black unemployment was 7 %. White unemployment was 5%.

Question 32

By 1968 what was the rate of black income compared to the income of white workers?

Answer 32

it was 61% of the income of white workers

Question 33

In 1960 what percentage of America’s black population were living in ‘unsound accomodation’?

Answer 33

46%

Question 34

In 1960 what percentage of America’s black population lived in urban areas where housing stock was old and where the amount of suitable housing was decreasing?

Answer 34

73%

Question 35

In 1960, what percentage of America’s black population lived in inner-city areas in the USA’s ten largest cities?

Answer 35

25%

Question 36

By 1967, how many states had some sort of fair housing law?

Answer 36

22 states and 8 cities

Question 37

By 1967, which two states had comprehensive enforcement agencies dedicated to challenging discrimination in the housing market?

Answer 37

New York State and Massachusetts

Question 38

What percentage of America’s housing market did the 1968 Fair Housing Act prohibit discrimination in?

Answer 38

80%

Question 39

What negative impact did congress have on the 1968 Fair Housing Act?

Answer 39

It refused to set up an enforcement agency for discrimination in the housing market.

Question 40

According to the 1968 fair housing act what was the maximum fine for discrimination in the housing market?

Answer 40

$1000

Question 41

In 1954, what percentage of those surveyed supported the Supreme Court’s decision to make segregation in education illegal?

Answer 41

55%

Question 42

By 1964 what percentage of the public supported desegregation of education?

Answer 42

80%

Question 43

In 1963 what percentage of people supported equal rights in terms of employment and voting?

Answer 43

80%

Question 44

In 1963 what percentage of people supported equal rights in terms of housing?

Answer 44

50%