The ANES Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior

Pace of Civil Rights Leaders' Actions 1964 -1992

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Data Table

  '64 '66 '68 '70 '72 '74 '76 '78 '80 '82 '84 '86 '88 '90 '92
Too Slowly 5
(83)		 5
(61)		 7
(104)		 9
(81)		 8
(220)		 9
(222)		 8
(227)		 ** 13
(175)		 ** 12
(113)		 14
(151)		 15
(262)		 11
(111)		 17
(377)
About Right 25
(389)		 19
(242)		 27
(420)		 33
(289)		 41
(1107)		 44
(1069)		 47
(1336)		 ** 48
(661)		 ** 55
(517)		 59
(636)		 56
(988)		 54
(529)		 55
(1230)
Too Fast 63
(976)		 65
(826)		 63
(957)		 53
(460)		 46
(1225)		 41
(1012)		 39
(1111)		 ** 33
(460)		 ** 30
(287)		 24
(259)		 25
(439)		 27
(264)		 25
(551)
Don't Know, Other 6
(94)		 12
(150)		 3
(47)		 5
(44)		 5
(125)		 6
(144)		 5
(153)		 ** 6
(78)		 ** 3
(28)		 2
(26)		 4
(68)		 8
(74)		 3
(63)
N 1542 1279 1528 874 2677 2447 2827 0 1374 0 945 1072 1757 978 2221

Percentage Within Study Year
Table 4B.2.
Source: VCF0814 in the ANES Cumulative Data File dataset, weighted with VCF0011z

Percent among demographic groups who responded:

Too Slowly
About Right
Too Fast

Question Text:

"Some say that the civil rights people have been trying to push too fast. Others feel they haven't pushed fast enough. How about you: Do you think that civil rights leaders are trying to push too fast, are going too slowly, or are they moving about the right speed?"

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