In its 2013 State of Black America report, the National Urban League credited civil rights legislation for helping the black community make progress in education and standard of living, but the same report also listed a number of challenges still facing the community. Discuss these areas of progress and the continuing challenges.

What will be an ideal response?

? The white-black high school completion rate gap has closed by 57 points; whereas only 25 percent of blacks graduated from high school in 1963, by 2013 the fraction had risen to 85 percent, and there had been a three-fold increase in the number of blacks enrolled in college.
? The white-black poverty rate gap fell by 23 points; whereas 48 percent of blacks lived in poverty in 1963, by 2013 the fraction had fallen to 28 percent.
? There was a 14 percent increase in the number of black homeowners.
? In 2013, as in 1963, the black-white unemployment ratio was still 2-to-1, regardless of education, gender, region, or income level.
? In 2013, as in 1963, more than a third of all black children (38 percent) still lived in poverty.
? In 2013, as in 1963, blacks employed in the public sector earned less than whites in the same jobs, and a still-wider black-white wage disparity persisted in the private sector.