The US has had controversial judgments to the coloured people before, but in the Civil Rights era, a lot was about to change. The coloured people had gotten more rights as time went on, but after this era, they could feel themselves becoming actually free. Before 1954 all-white public schools refused to admit the coloured people, which was outrageous, so the schools were ordered to integrate. Still, this was not enough since some African Americans received harassment and insults when trying to attend Little Rock Central High School, so the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People) had to be formed. Sadly, this was all erased by the Jim Crow laws, which stated that coloured people couldn't use the same public facilities nor have interracial marriages. For that reason many years later on August 28th, 1963, 250 000 people gathered for the Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech, which drew the attention to the inequality for the coloured. One could say that this was the reason, why in 1964 the Civil Rights Act was written and in 1965 the Voting Rights act was passed through. This ended the discrimination on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex or national origin, at least it was written down as a law. We all know that racism is still even in today's world, but it definitely is better than it was 70 years ago. I hope that one day we could say that racism is the thing of the past.
