Black people had equal rights in 1960s but the real change occured when Barack Obama was elected. The history of black America goes back to the 17th and 18th centuries, when european slave traders started to import black people from Africa to the american continent. The atlantic people slave trade became illegal but slavery continued in the USA. In 1865 the northern states won the civil war and slavery was abolished but a rigid system of racial segregation was introduced. Black people weren't integrated with the white people. They had different schools, hospitals, buses. They had no rights to vote.
Martin Luther King was the leader of the Civil Rights Movement. He organized sit-ins, boycotts and marches. His most famous march was that one on Washington D.C. for jobs and freedom in 1963, during this march he made a famous speech entitled "I have a dream". In 1965 black people obtained voting rights. He was killed in 1968. 
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