Carbo, in his own words stated that, "The Civil Rights Bill suckered the Blacks in Forever." I say to you BIGOT as long as there are people that think like your pathetic AZZ , this Bill is for YOU! Only a confused person with racist values will see anything wrong with the Civil Rights Act. If you walked in my shoes during this time you would understand, but it is very obvious that you were one of the problems. Even though you are a hard-core racist, it's hard to be ignorant and stupid at the same time, or is it? This is a mini-lesson as to why the Civil Rights Act was necessary.

Following the Civil War (1861-1865), a trio of constitutional amendments abolished slavery, made the former slaves citizens and gave all men the right to vote regardless of race. Nonetheless, many states–particularly in the South–used poll taxes, literacy tests and other similar measures to keep their African-American residents essentially disenfranchised. They also enforced strict segregation through “Jim Crow” laws and condoned violence from white supremacist groups like the Ku Klux Klan.

An incident on a bus started the protest. In December 1955, an African American women named Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white person. Her being jailed for not giving up her seat is what influenced other African Americans to start the movement.

For decades after Reconstruction (1865-1877), the U.S. Congress did not pass a single civil rights act. Finally, in 1957, it established a civil rights section of the Justice Department, along with a Commission on Civil Rights to investigate discriminatory conditions. Three years later, Congress provided for court-appointed referees to help blacks register to vote. Both of these bills were strongly watered down to overcome southern resistance. When John F. Kennedy entered the White House in 1961, he initially delayed in supporting new anti-discrimination measures. But with protests springing up throughout the South – including one in Birmingham, Alabama, where police brutally suppressed nonviolent demonstrators with dogs, clubs and high-pressure fire hoses – Kennedy decided to act. In June 1963 he proposed by far the most comprehensive civil rights legislation to date, saying the United States “will not be fully free until all of its citizens are free.”

You see CARBO, the purpose of the civil rights movement was to establish equal rights for African Americans that we were already supposed to have, Not as you say, “The Civil Rights bill suckered the Blacks in forever.” This is pure RACISM coming from a BONAFIDE RACIST from FLORIDA.