Segregation was very well known during the 1960s. There were civil right protesters everywhere. The struggles for the civil rights went from Birmingham, Alabama to other cities and towns in the south. This was so popular that it caught the eyes of people who watch television so all of America could see. America and the world looked at the video carefully as they saw the people of the south get maltreated, assaulted by dogs, sprayed with heavy pressured water hoses, and other mistreating things. In 1963, many of the demonstrators were even arrested and taken to jail. Soon the sight of these downtrodden actions made many Americans go into an outrage. Before his assassination, President, Lyndon B. Johnson helped prevent this kind of tolerance
