Questions:What problem(s) was this law aimed at solving?

Did a specific event lead to this law? If so, which one( s)?

• Banned discrimination in employment and public accommodations

• Increased federal power to protect voting rights

• Attempted to speed up school desegregation

• Established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (to ensure fair treatment in employment)

• Ended literacy tests

• Enabled government employees to help register voters

Questions:What problem(s) was this law aimed at solving?

Did a specific event lead to this law? If so, which one( s)?

• Prevented discrimination in the sale or rental of most housing

• strengthened anti-lynching laws

• made it a crime to harm civil rights workers

Questions:What problem(s) was this law aimed at solving?

Did a specific event lead to this law? If so, which one( s)?

• Increase in political representation

• Legal desegregation in all public facilities

• Decrease in poverty levels56% in 195922.7% in 1999

• Increase in college education3.3% in 195915.4% in 1999

• Affirmative Action (programs aimed at making special efforts to hire or enroll groups who have suffered discrimination)