African American Civil Rights 1970-1970

How far had African American Americans achieved equality in civil rights by 1970?

African American civil rights changed for the better for the African American population by the 1970s. For example more African American people were elected to governmental positions and African American people had managed to desegregate across the entire United States. However, not everything was perfect for the states located south of America as many were still denied of their rights by 1970.

In terms of housing, although, numerous civil rights acts now had given black Americans equality, however, it would take numerous years to change the fact that segregation would still leave African Americans as 2nd class citizens. This is because it’s harder to convince

The 1960 census also indicated that 73 percent of the African American population lived in communal areas where housing was old and where the amount of appropriate housing accessible was decreasing. Although, African American activists put pressure on American legislators to try and resolve these problems. By 1970 only 27 states and eight cities had some form of non-discriminatory housing laws. New York state and Massachusetts had ample enforcement agencies devoted to challenging discrimination in the housing sector. However the majority of these “fair housing” were mainly a front of the government making progress against racial discrimination. The 1968 fair housing act prohibited discrimination in 80 percent of America’s housing sector. For example, the highest possible fine for racial discrimination in the housing market was a paltry sum of $1000. Consequently the act was futile against racism in the housing market. One of the failures of the American government was the Experimental Housing Allowance Program. This Program tried investigating what the African American

For example, the civil rights activists of the 1950’s and 1960’s accomplished some major and noteworthy triumphs in the area of education. The sweat v. painter established that all races were permitted to equal schooling resources. The 1954 brown v. board of education went even more establishing that the “separate but equal” principle was damaging to children’s intellect. Henceforth segregation in schools was found unlawful by a unanimous vote by Earl Warren. Eventually in 1969, the Supreme Court had run out of patience with southern state schools which had done little to nothing to desegregate. This lead to President Nixon threatening school officials. By 1970, 30 Mississippi schools had desegregated along with an integration of 104 schools in South Carolina. Based on the evidence given, African Americans had managed to achieve their civil rights in terms of schooling. Furthermore, having African Americans joining white schools they would now have access to the improved teaching that would not only advance their education, but ultimately leading to improved jobs which would cause an advance in the African American wealth gap closer together to that of white people in America. Based on the evidence shown here, education was the most important in achieving equality for African American Americans as with education, African Americans were able to find better jobs and they were able to