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That summer, Congress finally passed Johnson's voting rights act of 1965. The act eliminated the so-called literacy test that disqualified many voters. It started that federal examiners could enroll who had been denied suffrage by local officials. In Selma, the proportion of African Americans registered to vote rose from 10 percent in 1974 to 60% in 1968. Overall, the percentage of registered African American voters in the South has tripled.

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Two weeks after King's speech, On September 15, 1963 violence struck again, they bombed the Birmingham church and it killed 4 girls and 2 more African Americans died in the unrest that followed. Two months later, an assassin shot and killed John F. Kennedy, President Lyndon B. Johnson, pledged to carry on Kennedy's work. On July 2, 1964, Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, and gender.

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The University of Arkansas was the first to accept African-American students. But the governor supported segregation, so it was harder to try to make things better. Nine of the African American students were chosen to attend the school, 8 of them were made safe because they were taken, but the ninth student was not because they could not reach her. The student upon arriving at the school was bullied but managed to get to school safely, after that, many more African American students started attending the school. At the end of the year the school had to close because many people were being bullied by other people, so the administrators had to choose to close the school to stop seeing African American students being bullied.

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At that time states spent 10 times as much money on the education of "white children" as they did on people of color. In 1938, Houston put a team of its best law students under the direction of Thurgood Marshall. Over the next 23 years, Marshall and his NAACP lawyers would win 29 of the 32 cases brought before the Supreme Court.

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Malcolm X fue asesinado a tiros en Harlem el 21 de febrero de 1965 por su ruptura con los musulmanes de raza negra. Su actitud hacia las personas de raza blanca haba cambiado radicalmente. Su eslogan "votos o balas" explicó que si no intentaban usar el sistema poltico, se veran obligados a recurrir a la violencia (balas). Debido a su ruptura con los musulmanes de raza negra, su vida poda estar en peligro.

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In 1964 CORE and SNCC workers in the South began working together to register as many African Americans as they could to vote and This was focused in Mississippi, this was known as Freedom Summer. In June 1964, three civil rights workers disappeared in Neshoba County, Mississippi. Thought the summer, the racial beatings and murders continued, along with the burning of businesses, homes, and churches.

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Ole Miss, University Circle, University, Mississippi

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Ole Miss, University Circle, University, Mississippi

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Ole Miss, University Circle, University, Mississippi

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James Meredith won a federal court case in September 1962, allowing him to enroll in the University of Mississippi, nicknamed Ole Miss, which was exclusive for white people. When he arrived, he was confronted by Governor Ross Barnett, who refused to allow him to enroll. President Kennedy ordered federal marshals to escort Meredith to the registry office, and Barnett responded with a radio appeal. White protesters flocked to the broadcast, leading to riots and two deaths. Federal officials accompanied Meredith to class and protected her parents from nighttime assailants shooting against her house.

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"The story of an American woman" (The date of this story is unknown)

Jo Ann Gibson Robinson was carrying Christmas gifts as she boarded a public bus. At that time white people sat in the front of the bus and colored people had to sit in the back of the bus. She sat in the front seats and was scolded by the driver, the driver told her to go to the back of the bus. Some time later, on December 1, 1955, the police took another woman to jail and African-Americans began to protest.

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In Anniston, Alabama, about 200 angry whites attacked bus two and the mod followed the activists out of town. When one of the tires blew, they smashed a window and tossed in a firebomb. The freedom riders spilled out just before the bus exploded. Alabama officials had promised Kennedy that the riders would be protected and a mob of whites they carried bats and lead pipes, fell upon the riders when they arrived in Montgomery.

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Arkansas became the first southern state to admit African-Americans to state universities without a court order in 1948. Little Rock elected two men for the school board who publicly supported integration, but Governor Orval Faubus publicly supported segregation and ordered the National Guard to reject the "Little Rock Nine".

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Violence erupts in Watts, CA in August, 1965, as citizens are outraged because of a traffic stop in which a black man was stopped and arrested by a white Highway Patrol officer. An African American man, Marquette Frye, was pulled over on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. Frye resisted arrest, however it is unclear today whether or not the officer used excessive force to detain him. "The riots resulted in the deaths of 34 people, while more than 1,000 were injured and more than $40 million worth of property was destroyed." -Britannica. The riots lasted for 6 days starting on Aug 11, 1965. There are conflicting opinions about the riots, some believe that it was caused by opportunists who saw a chance to loot, steal, and cause chaos by burning their own neighborhoods. Others believe that the relationship between the police and the citizens in the area had a long history of mistreatment and the Watts riots was simply a breaking point for the community. Still others blamed poverty, as a result, President LBJ declared a war on poverty across America.