1964 Civil Rights Act
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- Created on: 06-05-15 18:01
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- 1964 Civil Rights Act
- Civil Rights Commission discoveries
- 57% of African American housing was unacceptable
- African American life expectancy was 7 years lower than whites
- AA infant mortality was twice that of whites
- AA found it impossible to get mortgages
- Property values dropped if an AA family moved into a neighbourhood that wasn't a ghetto
- What were the terms of the act?
- Federal funding wouldn't be given to segregated schools
- Any company wanting federal business had to have a pro-civil rights charter
- Any segregationist company could not win a federal contract
- Any company wanting federal business had to have a pro-civil rights charter
- Barred unequal application of voter registration requirements.
- Outlawed discrimination based on race/colour/religion/national origin in hotels, restaurants, theaters, and all other public places
- What was the reaction?
- Southerners were horrified
- Johnson only got away with it because he was from Texas (the south)
- Ironically the AA community were most vocal in criticising the act
- Riots by AA in north-eastern cities as the cat didn't go far enough
- Johnson was dismayed at lack of public support from AA community
- Was still major importance to America's political and social development
- Johnson's greatest achievement
- Southerners were horrified
- Johnson
- Played the card: 'how could anybody vote against an issue so dear to the late president's heart'
- Appealed to the nation who were still traumatised by Kennedy's murder
- 68% now supported a meaningful civil rights act
- America had moved on since the 1957 act
- King was now an international figure and Malcolm X was now proclaiming a militant approach
- Northern city ghettos were becoming more difficult
- Believed he owed it to Kennedy's life to push through this act
- Played the card: 'how could anybody vote against an issue so dear to the late president's heart'
- Civil Rights Commission discoveries
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