Answer:
Disproportionately African American and suffered greater rates of disease and malnutrition.
Explanation:
African Americans in 1960s were the poorest ethic group during these times because segregation was still around after Jim Crow law ended in 1950. As time passed, the civil rights movement began in December 1955, when NAACP activist Rosa parks refused to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man and the rest is history. The statistics say that Black Americans had a life-span seven years than white Americans'. The reasons for this short life-span is because failing high school & college can heavily cripple any chance of getting a career, only if you're non-white. Another reason for shorten life span is disease and malnutrition from the result of lacking access to resources, which can also lead to increase in crimes cause poor people to rely on doing certain crimes like stealing if they want to continue living longer. Then the Vietnam war came along which made poverty rates much higher until it was resolved. Between 1964-1965, things were being changed in a positive way when President Lyndon B Johnson passed bills that help improve education and expanded 14-15th amendment by banning racial discrimination in voting and such. As a result, poverty rates dropped dramatically in 1960s and quality of life in African Americans slightly improved, but not exactly the same as other races.
