USA Topic 2 stats

After the Civil Rights Act, what % of black school children still attended segregated school by 1968?

68%

How many black American were there in Selma? How many could vote?

23/14,500

After the Voting Rights Act, what % of BA could vote in Mississippi by 1968?

Due o this, by how many did the number of black people elected to office multiply by?

59%

6x

In 1960s, black people made up how much of the population vs how much of those unemployed?

11% of population

46% unemployed

When were the Watts Riots?

1965

When was the Chicago Campaign?

1966

How many BA in Chicago were faced with unemp, poor housing and/or poor education?

700,000

After MLK’s assassination, major riots broke out.

How many cities saw this?

How many deaths?

How many troops sent in?

100 cities

46 deaths

21,000 troops

What did the membership of NoI range from?

25,000-250,000

When was the Meredith March?

At what uni was James Meredith the first Black Student?

1966

Uni of Mississippi

What Ghetto programmes did the Black Panthers develop?

40 health clinics

School breakfast programmes

What % of MA lived in ghettos?

80%

What union did Cesar Chavez set up?

United Farm Workers

How many American supported the tabe grape boycott?

17 mill

By 1980 what % of grapes were harvested by UFW members, making the contract signed by grape growers largely superficial?

10%

What was Johnson’s approval rating?

75%

How much did LBJ spend of the GS vs Vietnam?

$15.5bil on GS vs $120bil on Vietnam

When was the Fair Housing Act?

1968

When was the Economic Opportunity Act?

1965

What were three key features of the Economic opportunity act?

44 states with antipoverty programmes

50,000 students in upward bound programmes

35% ^ in min wage

By how much dd the% of Americans in poverty drop from 1965-1972?

17%-11%

What was federal expenditure at by 1966 → conservative disapproval?

$20 bill

Why did liberals argue that LBJ’s spending wasn’t enough to tackle poverty?

1/3 on non-white families still below pov line

How many areas were added to national parks under Johnson? How many new national parks were created?

50 new areas

3 new parks

When were the Water Quality Act and Clean Air Act?

1965

When was the ESEA? How many children benefitted? How much of the funding went to children above the poverty line?

1965

6.7 million

1/2

When was the HEA?

How many students benefitted from the act?

How did the number of students 18-22 rise from 1950 to 1970?

1965

11mill

15% - 34%

When was the social security Act that brought in medicare and medicaid?

1965

Who did Medicare cover? How many enrolled

65+ and disabled people for insurance

19 mil enrolled

When was the demonstration cities act?

1966

How much $ did the demonsrtation cities act have? How much did NYC need?

$1.2 bil for 6 cities

NYC needed $6bill

When was the Omnibus Housing Act? How much did it give to improve ghettos?

Who opposed it?

1965

$8bill

White Taxpayers

When was the SDS anti-vietnam march in Washington?

How many marched?

1965

25,000

How many were arrested after the Berkley FSM occupation of the admin building?

800

How many participated in Berkley Anti-war ‘teach-ins’?

20,000

When did Berkley lead an anti-war march? How many marchers were there? How many police?

1965

8000 marchers

2000 police

How many students protested the Harlem Gym in Columbia uni?

1,000

How many hipies were therein the USA?

300,000

When was woodstock? How many were there?

1969 - 400,000

When was the Digger ‘death to money’ march’?

When was the Digger ‘death to the hippie’ march’?

1966

1967

When was the Feminine Mystique published?

When did Betty Friedan set up NOW?

1963

1966

How many women went on strike as part of NOW protest for equality?

100,000 (‘Don’t iron while the strike is hot’)

After NOW’s pressure when was the marriage bar lifted in airlines? When was the federal ruling against marriage and age bans? When could men be flight attendants?

1968

1970

1972

How many discrimination cases did NOW fight? How much $ did they win back for women by 1971?

1000

$13 mil

How did consciousness-raising meetings of the Women’s lib mvt impact the fraction of women who felt discriminated against?

1960 - ¼

1974 - 2/3

When was the Miss America swim suit pagaent? How many women’s lib protestors disrupted?

1968

100+

What act did Nixon veto in 1971?

Child Development Act - would’ve established childcare centres nationwide for poor, working mothers

How did women’s perception of premarital sex change?

1969 - 74% women said it was wrong

1973 - 53%

What did the Kinsey report say about sex before marriage and sex with animals?

68% men, 50% women sex before marriage

8% men, 4% women sex with animals

Abortion being illegal → backstreet abortions. As a result one Chicago hospital treated how many women for abortion related complications in the early 60s?

5,000

When were the stonewall riots? How long did they last?

1969

5 days

Who did Nixon address in his election campaign in 1968?

Silent Majority

How many troops were in Vietnam by 1967? When was the tet offensive?

500,000

1968

After MLK’s death in 1968, how many $ worth of property damage was the done? In how many cities were the riots? How many troops were sent in? → Nixon’s election

$45 mill

100 cities

21,000

When was Robert Kennedy Assassinated? When was the 1968 election?

June 1968

November 1968

At the 1968 DNC how many Mobes and Yippies interrupted the event? How many police were sent to combat this?

30,000 M&Y

12,000 police

What was the approval rating of the police’s action after the 1968 DNC?

56%

Which rock stars died within a 10 month span 1970-71 from drug overdose?

Jim Joplin

Jim Morrison

Jimmy Hendrix

How many bombings/attempted bombing were there from student radicals 1969-70?

2000

What was the largest antiwar protest in the USA?

Moratorium 1969

What % of people thought the Moratorium protestors were treated too leniantly?

84%

When nixon ^ bombing to the Cambodian supply trail, action increased in what % of US unis?

80%

How many deaths and injuries were there at Kent State after student protests in the ROTC building?

4 deaths, 11 injuries

How many deaths and injuries were there at Jackson State when police opened fire in an all-women’s dorm?

2 deaths, 12 injured (less coverage as students were black)

What % of Americans thought that the problems at Kent State was the fault of the students?

50%

How did Nixon deal with student radicalism?

Depriving scholarships and busying them with court cases

Who was nominated as VP in the 1972 DNC?

Mao Zedong - leader of communist China

What did George McGovern want to do?

Legalise abortion and marijuana

$1000 to every American

What did repub call McGovern?

3A’s leader

In 1968 what % of people believed too many were receiving welfare payments?

84%

1960-70 under Johnson’s GS how did the number of children receiving aid through AFDC ^?

What fraction of children were on welfare?

What fraction of Black children were on welfare?

5.4mil

1/9

1/3

What is one act evidencing Nixon’s attack on the GS?

Vetoing 1971 Child dev act

How many S. Vietnamese civilians were killed by US soldiers who believed they were N. Vietnamese?

When did this My Lai massacre happen?

When did the US papers pick it up?

347

1968

1969

When were the pentagon papers leaked?

1971

When was the spontaneous combustion of a chemically saturated, Ohio River?

1969