Question

Imagine it is 1964

You are either a) a white woman or b) an African American man or woman (choose one role)
What do you hope the new administration under president Johnson will do to ensure that you were treated as an equal in American society ?

Answer 1

More voting rights and elimination of poll tax

Answer 2

If I were a black man in 1964, what I would care about the most would be the Civil Rights Act. I would hope that President Johnson would continue to push for it.

I would know that the Act had already been proposed by Kennedy, but that he could not gather enough support for it. However, I would believe that the act needed to be passed in order to ensure black people were treated equally under the law. The act would include the prohibition of unequal voter registration requirements and school segregation.