It is clear that numerous events throughout history have lead to a knock on effect. March on Washington and the Freedom Rides were not isolated events and although they left a lasting impression and raised awareness of racial discrimination at the time, they have not fixed all the world’s problems. Also, they were not spontaneous; they were just two events in a long chain of occurrences. Today, many events have proved that the situation has changed, and that people are changing, but we still see events which are disheartening, violent, and go against basic human rights, and all that many people worked hard to abolish during the Civil Rights Movement. For example, Barrack Obama is the 44th and current President of the United States, and the
