Equal Rights (Brandon)

The equal rights that we didn’t have back along time ago is that African-American people could not eat in the same places as white people. Colored people had to sit in the back of the buses and eat at different restaurants and they would get treated bad and unfair. Back in the 1950’s African-Americans had basically no rights and they were separated from everybody else. If they did not follow the rules then they would go to jail. Rights that we have no that we didn’t have in the past is we can be in the same place as everybody else and eat at the same restaurants and go where all the white people could go. In the 1960’s they had a civil rights movement and the leader was a guy named Martin Luther King jr he started protests and fought for peoples rights. A few years later he got assassinated. Shortly after that they passed a law that gave everybody equal rights. The rights we didn’t have  before that happened was they couldn’t be together with  white people like they couldn’t eat together, couldn’t drink from the same water fountains or even use the same bathrooms, and they couldn’t  go to the same schools as white people. That’s what life would be like if we did not have rights.