In the years immediately following the introduction of school desegregation in the United States and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, White Americans expressed diminishing racial prejudice. According to the text author, this best illustrated the impact of

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The passage states that after desegregation and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, White Americans expressed less racial prejudice. This suggests that their actions (i.e. being forced to interact with and share resources with people of other races) had an impact on their attitudes (i.e. racial prejudice). This phenomenon is known as "actions on attitudes."

In the Years Immediately Following the Introduction of School Desegregation