The Impact of Civil Rights Legislation - Achievements and Limitations

Question 1

What did the 1964 Civil Rights Act give the federal government the legal tools to end?

Answer 1

De jure segregation

Question 2

What did the 1964 Civil Rights Act establish?

Answer 2

Equal Employment Commission

Question 3

Limitation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act:

Answer 3

Did little to facilitate black voting

Question 4

1965 Voting Rights Act:

Answer 4

Made literacy tests illegal

Question 5

By December 1966, how many Deep South States still had fewer than 50% of eligible black voters?

Answer 5

4

Question 6

The proportion of black southerners registered to vote compared to whites in 1980:

Answer 6

7% lower than whites

Question 7

How many black officials were there in Mississippi in 1980?

Answer 7

Over 300

Question 8

When was Johnson’s Education Acts?

Answer 8

1965

Question 9

1965 Education Acts:

Answer 9

Sped up school desegregation and helped black colleges

Question 10

Johnson Great Society programmes:

Answer 10

Contributed to a 34% fall in black unemployment and a 25% fall in the number of black Americans living below the poverty line

Question 11

What did Congress block Johnson’s proposal?

Answer 11

His bill to prohibit discrimination in houing rental and sales

Question 12

When was the Fair Housing Act passed?

Answer 12

1968

Question 13

Fair Housing Act:

Answer 13

Prohibited discrimination concerning the sale of housing based on race

Question 14

President Kennedy’s Executive 1106:

Answer 14

Bans discrimination in the allocation of federal housing

Question 15

When was Executive 1106 passed?

Answer 15

1962

Question 16

How many black Americans voted in 1980, compared to 1966?

Answer 16

1980 - 60%
1966 - 58%

Question 17

Black crime rates in 1980:

Answer 17

75% of black high school drop-outs, aged 25-34, had criminal records