1944 – The Serviceman's Readjustment Act, the GI Bill of Rights provided unemployment benefits, education assistance, and low interest loans for homes and businesses. Within seven years over eight million veterans received financial assistance for education. Within a year of the GI bill being passed most universities stopped using quotas on the number of Jewish and catholic students they would accept and over a third of the veterans receiving educational aid between 1946 and 1950 were African Americas