The Civil Rights Act - 1964 Flashcards
Who designed the great society program and why
The new Pres Lyndon Johnson to bring an end to poverty and injustice
What was the Civil Rights act part of
The great society program
What did the Civil Rights act out law and what was set up to enforce these rulings (outlaws)
Racial segregation in schools, public places and employment and set up an equal opportunities commission to enforce this ruling
Where did Johnson direct his funding and what result did this have on states
To those states which made fastest progress on desegregation this resulted in states being encouraged to work harder to get this funding
When were two young civil rights workers murdered
1964
What did Johnson do in his reaction of the murder of two young civil rights workers
Ordered FBI to hunt down killers
Led to 19 KKK men including a sheriff and deputy arrested
How many KKK men were arrested in the hunt to find the killers of the two young civil rights workers
19
When did Pres Johnson pass the voting rights act
1965
What did the voting rights act end and result in
Ended literacy tests and other tricks by which whites had stopped blacks registering to vote - now everyone could vote as of right
When was the education act also set up
1965
What did the education act provide and result in
Funding for public schools; black students gain significantly and the number of black people’s leaving with high school diploma is increased
In what year did James Farmer recommend what
1962 farmer recommends what he called ‘compulsory preferential treatment’
What is compulsory preferential treatment
giving black people extra help to allow them to compete with more advantage whites
What idea did Johnson adopt and what did he call this idea
Farmers compulsory preferential treatment
He called it affirmative action
What is affirmative action
Pres Johnson’s policy of giving black people more support to compete with some more well off white people
When was a higher education act passed and what did it do
Past 1965
Gave aid to black colleges
When was in the fair Housing act passed and what did it do
Also called Civil Rights act
1968
Banned discrimination in housing
What was the fair Housing act designed to do
To allow black Americans if they wished to move into areas where white Americans lived
What was johnsons great society program taken over by
The Vietnam war
What is the result of the Vietnam war on the government and their program of social reform
The government no longer had the money to spend on the ambitious program of social reform
By 1967 what was the average black persons income in comparison to the white persons income
Reason to 62% of the average white persons income
Amongst what riots of what timeframe had black politics been radicalised
Amongst the riots of 1964 to 68
After what riots of what year did King visit the area of where these riots took place
The watts riots of 1965
What was King’s reaction when he visited the area of watts
Horrified at the economic deprivation, social isolation, inadequate housing, and general despair
When did Martin Luther King go to live in the ghettos of what city to see how he might help
1966 went to live in the ghettos of Chicago
Why was king not a success in Chicago
He quarrelled with the mayor
Not well liked by local black people
What riots broke out in the summer of 1966
The fire hydrant riots
Why did the fire hydrant riots breakout
When the police shut down a fire hydrant that black youths had been playing in
Who did the mayor blame for the fire hydrant riots in the summer of 1966
King
In what year did King join and SNCC in March in Where?
1966 in Memphis
What was the SNCC March in Memphis known as And why
Known as the Meredith March
as held in support of James Meredith who intended to march on his own but had been shot and wounded on the second day
What did King argue with Stokely Carmichael about
About whether the march should be back only
On the March what did SNCC members sing
Oh what fun it is to blast/a trooper man away
What did Carmichael use the Meredith March event as
A platform from which to preach black power
What did the new black power leaders think of King
They despised him personally and had little in common
Why did Martin Luther King not like the talk of black power
He feared it would frighten his white supporters and provoke racial conflict
What did king want instead of black power
Striped power
Black and white would share equally
What was king mostly horrified by
The black power movements open advocacy of violent protest
What did king realise towards the end of his life now that desegregation and voting legislation was in place
What is needed was social action
What had the civil rights movement secured and what was a flaw in his secretion
Legal equality but this only gave black Americans an opportunity not a deliverance
When did Martin Luther King publish his book where do we go from here
1967
What idea did King take up in his book
The idea of affirmative-action
Giving black Americans the vote had cost white America nothing now is time to social and economic action
What was the result of kings new left wing political Views
1967 he began to speak out against the Vietnam War, declaring that it was immoral and on social grounds: it cost half $1 million to kill a Vietcong soldier; but we are only spending $53 on every poor American back home he said
When was Martin Luther King assassinated
1968
What happened in the years since 1964
Black Americans achieved an impressive string of firsts
-First black mayor, first black general, first black US ambassador to the United Nations, first black spaceshuttle commander, first Black Secretary of State.
Whatever census of 1992 show
Average black income was about 62% of average white income-exactly what had been 25 years earlier.
1/3 of all black male age 20 to 29 were in prison, on parole on probation (black American seven times more likely than white American to be in jail)
In 1992 how much percent of the black population were unemployed
14%-double the figure for white Americans
In 1992 in some of the inner-city ghettos how high was unemployment
63%
In 1991 what happened to do with Los Angeles Police
LA police are filmed giving Rodney King and monkey slapping (one of the offices described it)
What was the result of the 1991 Rodney King slapping
Jury acquitted the offices in 1992, black protesters riot for six days
How many people died during the Rodney King riots and how much damage was done
53 people died
$1 billion of damage done
