Blacks were being lynched in the South. Blacks lived in terror for their lives from the White man. It was claimed that the White man was keeping the good things for himself and forcing the Blacks to live second class lives. Taking all of the claims in that list at face value, which is just what the Media Lords pretended to do in their newspapers and television broadcasts, it looks like the situation was one of the White man oppressing the Black man. After 40 years we can look back and see that what was perceived as oppression was very little more than simple and necessary restraint.
Blacks are still poor.
Their per capita earning is still well below that of Whites. It can no longer be claimed that the White man is holding Blacks down however. Blacks have been the recipients of tremendous advantage in our society over the last 40 years. They have been preferentially hired, and kept in jobs that they were not qualified for. They have been given trillions of dollars of White tax money, in the form of welfare.