When African Americans were freed from their chains at the official end of slavery during December 6th, 1865, equality was not reached. The bigotry against those who had darker skin was still quite prevalent, causing them to lack many fundamental rights that those of fairer skin easily achieved centuries earlier. An example of this is segregated schools, where anyone that was not of European descent would be sent to a separate school that was of lesser quality in differing neighborhoods. This included at first only African Americans, but eventually would expand to include those who were chinese, japanese, hispanics, among others. The push for desegregation was a slow advance at first, as during the 1940´s only 30% of the population wanted