What to Remember About Something That Happened This Week

It was 61 years ago this week that something happened that would change things in our country. But it didn’t happen easily.

There was a lot of opposition to it and members of Congress argued about it during lengthy debates before it happened.

It was the signing at the White House of the 1964 Civil Rights Act by President Lyndon Johnson that was a key platform of President John F. Kennedy’s successful campaign in1960 but who had been assassinated one year before the bill became the law of the land.

The law didn’t change things overnight.  Laws may have changed with the signing of the Civil Rights Act, but when it comes to people’s views of the world and of other people who don’t look like them. it doesn’t just happen because a president signs a bill into law.

No doubt about it.  Things have drastically changed from what things were like in the 1960’s, 1950’s and even long before that.

But now 61 years later, it is still important to remember those famous words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr who said that we should not be judged by the color of our skin or our differences, but by the content of our character and how we treat our neighbors as a man named Jesus once said.

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