Post-War Prosperity - Review

C. low-interest housing loans and payments towards education.

B. American producers faced less competition because of destruction in Europe and Asia.

B. Travel and trade between states became easier and faster than before.

D. NAACP and the Congress of Racial Equality

A. The armed forces of the United States were desegregated.

B. To demand that Congress pass President Kennedy’s Civil Rights Bill

A. They sent emergency assistance in the form of troops and marshals to stop the violence.

C. Hotels, restaurants and employers in interstate commerce cannot discriminate on the basis of race.

A. Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

C. Whites as well as blacks participated in the struggle against racial discrimination.

A. NAACP, Urban League, CORE, SCLC

C. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Lyndon Johnson

B. It can rule state laws unconstitutional.

A. Schools can take race into account when making their admission decisions.

A. Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, and H. Rap Brown

B. Expressed pride in being African-American

B. The Black Panthers demanded monetary reparations for past abuses of African Americans.

B. Their construction was federally funded by the G.I. Bill.