African-Americans Experience in 1990

• Segregation in public places had disappeared.
• African-Americans were voting on an equal basis to whites and increasingly being elected to public office.
• All political figures within the main parties accepted the principle of racial equality and condemned discrimination.
• Middle-class African-Americans had increased their numbers and were prominent in American business life.
• Opposition to civil rights legislation had largely disappeared. 

However

• Unemployment remained…