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King flew into Birmingham to hold a planning meeting with members of the African American Community.
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More than a thousand African American children marched on Birmingham.
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More than 250,000 people including about 750,000 whites coveraged on the nations capital. Where Martin Luther KIng Jr. gave his "I have a dream speech".
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Mid 1960's, clashes between white authority and black civilians spread like wildfire. In New York CIty, an encounter between white police and and African American teenagers ended in a death of a 15 year old student.
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Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, and gender.
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COngress finally passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Act eliminated the so-called literacy tests that disqualified many voters.
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Start of 1965 the SCLC conducted a major voting rights campaign in Selma, Alabama where SNCC had been working for two years to register voters.
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Marchers again set out for Montgomery, this time with the federal protection. Soon the number grew to an army of 25,000.
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Five days after President JOhnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, one of the worst riots in the nations history raged through the streets of Watts, a predominantly African American neighborhood in Los Angeles.
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This act ended discrimination in housing. After school segregation ended, the numbers of African Americans who finished high school and who went to college increased significantly.
