2. 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)

3. 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)?

4. 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)?

5. Increase in political representation Legal desegregation in all public facilities Decrease in poverty levels 56% in 1959 22.7% in 1999 Increase in college education 3.3% in 1959 15.4% in 1999 Affirmative Action (programs aimed at making special efforts to hire or enroll groups who have suffered discrimination)