The Civil Rights Movement and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

There was an appreciable increase in the percentage of blacks in professional and technical fields from 1971 to 1972, but almost entirely offset by a reduction. Asians and Hispanics show similar long-term upward trends that had begun years before the passage of the 1964 Act. Mexican American incomes rose in relation to those of whites between 1959 and 1969, but not at a greater rate than between 1949 and 1959. Chinese and Japanese American households had matched their white counterparts in income by 1959,. In spite of the fact that Japanese Americans had been interned in concentration camps less than two decades before.