1968-80

Question 1

did black political status improve

Answer 1

for
- more African Americans in congress four 59-10 in 69 - 18 in 1980
-in 60s no mayor but in 1970 black mayor of Detroit LA Washington DC and Atlanta
-SC helped by ruling that no redrawing of political boundaries should leave minority groups worse off beer vs United States
-some states created districts were BA voters grouped together to help election B officials

no
- amount of black Americans in congress not proportion and its unrealistic to see the South as transformed
- by 1980 the massive increase in black voter leg still not = increase in b elected officals in deep south
although 27% of reg voters in Gerogia in 80 only 3.7 of their elected officials were black people
only one black senator Brooke massachusetts
-ba = 10 of us pop but only 1% of elected officials

Question 2

did black economic status improve

Answer 2

yes
-by 70s 35-45 percent black families classed as middle class
-affirmative action however this = backlash

no
-in 1975 fed judge tried to protect black officers went against last hired first fired policy =police riot
-80=median b househod income was only 60 of white household
-1/3 of ba had low skilled jobs and avergae earnings half white people
-black male teenage unemployment 50%
-life expectancy remained 6 years lower
-economic issues =race riots =sixteen dead over 400 injured and 100 mil property damage

Question 3

did black social status improve

Answer 3

yes
-equal access to most public places. and the 64 act mandated the acceleration of school desegregation and by 74 the % of seg schools in south was down from 68-8 percent
-rising number of AA from high school=economic opportunities. in 70 31 percent of AA and 55 percent wa aged over 25 hsd completed 4 or more years high school. by 1980 51 percent and 69 percent had done so
-in Swann v charlotte-Mecklenburg 71 sc specified busing of black and white children to each others schools as a way to achieve racially mixed schools

no
-Boston public schools clearly seperate and unequal= in 65 25 percent ba were students 0.5% were teachers and none were principles
-in june 1974 court found boston guilty =busing=ROAR=attacked glass of bus was smashed =transferred to all white private schools=Boston public schools had 45,000 white students in 74 but 16,000 in 87
-1968 fair housing act equality could not be legislated =integrationist policies were resisted by wp i house transactions
-congress approved anti-busing leg
ghetto health and life poor black child twice as likely to die before reaching one 4 times more likely to be murdered and 2x drop out school