Diary entry

  Dear Diary,

President Johnson's great society program has made its biggest successes in the passing of the civil rights act.  There can no longer be segregation in public places or job discrimination.  Also the voting rights act has let the minorities breathe easy about registering to vote.   I no longer have to take a literacy test or pay poll taxes; this is great.  Unfortunately, the laws may have changed, but peoples' minds have not changed. I still get dirty looks from people. I hear that in the South some people are not obeying the laws and still discriminating against us.   Like that Governor in Arkansas who would not let the black kids into the school.  The National Guard had to come so the blacks could go into the school.  I remember all the sit ins and various protests it took to get here.  They were very painful!  The fire hoses aimed at us and the hot coffee thrown on us, but I'm glad I participated.