Johnson and Federal acts

• When was the Civil Rights Act passed?

  1964
• What did Johnson use to help pass the CRA?

  The memory of JFK's death and arguing it must be passed due to his support of it prior to his death
• What was Johnson's aim declared as?

  The 'Great Society' Programme
• What did Johnson declare as part of his 'Great Society'

  A 'war on poverty' and 'an end to poverty and racial injustice'
• What did Johnson often do?

  Broke Senate Filibusters, wearing them down to pass the CRA
• What else helped to pass the CRA?

  The role of black activists and the NAACP/Labour Unions saddened by JFK's passing
• How many supported the Civil Rights Bill?

  By January 1964, 68% of the population favoured the bill
• What did the CRA prohibit?

  Discrimination in public places and federal programmes
• What was furthered by the CRA?

  School desegregation
• What did the CRA set up?

  An Equal Employment Commission
• When was the Voting Rights Act?

  August 1965
• What did the Voting Rights Act (1965) combat?

  It provided federally appointed registrars to combat devices such as literacy tests
• Which states were covered by the VRA (1965)?

  Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, South and North Carolina and Virginia
• What else did the Voting Rights Act do?

  It empowered attorney generals to appoint federal registrars in the mentioned states without having to get permission of a federal court
• How many new black voters were added to electorates in Southern states?

  250,000 by the end of 1965
• By late 1966 how many ex-confederate states had less than 50% of eligible black voters registered?

  4
• What percentage of Mississippi's black population were registered to vote by 1968?

  59%
• By 1980 what was the difference in proportion of white to black voters?

  7%
• How much did the number of black Americans elected to office in the South increase between 1965-1969?

  Increased 6x