An ideal response will:
1, Identify the Civil Rights Act passed in 1964, which ended segregation in public accommodations, and the Voting Rights Act passed in 1965, which declared illegal the various devices used in the South to keep African Americans from voting.
2, Evaluate whether the federal government might need to intervene in the future. Answers will vary, but an ideal response will recognize that because of de facto discrimination, problems for African Americans still exist in American society (e.g., racial profiling, voter fraud to exclude African Americans), and so it is very likely that the federal government will continue to be involved in securing the rights of this minority.