Once upon a time there was a young black boy named Jackie Robinson, who was always playing basketball. He dreamed of becoming a big basketball player in the future.  When we finally grew up and got the chance, he received death threats if he played but he still had the courage to play even if his life was on the line. He became the first black player in the Major League basketball and was also a US military hero. He broke the racial barrier in sports particularly the MLB. After Jackie Robinson joined the MLB the dodgers recruited another black player that was a strikeout pitcher. Jackie Robinson was a star athlete from UCLA who broke the color line in 1947; as an infielder for the Brooklyn Dodgers he integrated professional sports.

Robinson turned on the TV and say on the new that in Birmingham, Alabama which was the most segregated city in US. Blacks there started a campaign known as the Birmingham Campaign as protest. In 1963, the governor, T. Eugene Bull Connor, ordered the police to get rid of these demonstrators. The polices did so by using police dogs and water hoses on blacks. This made JFK realize that the federal government cannot have a laissez faire approach on this matter. As a result, JFK introduced the Civil Rights Bill which was later put into practice in LBJ's administration.

There was a very brave black hero named Martin Luther King Jr. who led the blacks through the Civil Rights movement and when he say that blacks were being treated unfairly Birmingham Campaign in the August of 1963, he decided to lead a March in Washington at Lincoln Memorial where more than 250,000 people who gathered to support his new Civil Rights legislation. The NAACP, SCLC, and SNCC were also there to support him. He also have his "I have a dream" speech there. It was more of a celebration than a protest. It was to urge JKF's civil rights bill which was later passed in LBJ.

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MLK encouraged his cousin James Meredith to go to the University of Mississippi which was segregated therefore a black could not enroll in this university. In the October of 1962, he tried so many times and then sued for admission. When he was going to this university there was mass rioting because the whites didn't like him. The President, JFK, used US marshals and military to get him to university safely. This meant that the federal government was now supporting he blacks and trying for them to get equal rights as well. During the Civil Rights March of 1966, as people didn't like him, they got rid of him but before that he told his friends to fight against this.

In 1960, the NAACP Youth Council launched a wave of anti-segregation sit-ins across the South and opened a national awareness of the depth of segregation in the nation because Meredith told them to. Woolworth's lunch counter, Four African American college students were denied service at lunch counter; they stayed until closing time. When businesses saw their losses, they stopped segregation. Their names were Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr., and David Richmond. This was known as the Greensburg sit-in.

Joseph McNeil's sister, Rosa Parks was a great student. One day she was going on her bus to school when an evil white girl told her to get up so she could sit. She said, "No! This is my seat" and because she was black, the police came and arrested her. After that there was a bus boycott in Montgomery. When it affected bus business, the Supreme Court declared segregation in public transport illegal.