Racial Equality

In an effort to bring about racial equality in this nation, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act (1964) & Voting Rights Act (1965) and days later, the Watts Rebellion/Riot occurred. You are being tasked with examining why Civil Rights Leaders such as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., warned Whites who were celebrating that racism had finally been subdued that their celebrations were premature. Hint: Your answer should include Dr. King’s admonishment that the Civil Rights Movement had two stages: (1) Securing equality on the law books of America and (2) The Exercise/Activation of that equality.