45 years ago, August 2, 1964, the president Lyndon B. Johnson promulgated the Law of Civil rights, which condenses the protections and privileges of the personal powers started to all the citizens for the law.
Examples of civil rights and freedoms include the right to an indemnification if one is injured by other, the right to the privacy, the right to protest pacifically. Also, there are more general constitutional rights like the right to vote, to the personal freedom, to the freedom of movement and to the egalitarian protection.

Pero la Ley of Civil rights did not arise overnight. It was in fact the fruit of a painful and bloody struggle, during a dark period for our nation and that many people consider it began in 1955 with the boycott to the buses in Montgomery in 1955 and ended with the murder of Martin Luther King in 1968. Although the civil rights movement continues in other fronts, like the one that at present there lead million immigrants – mostly Hispanics - after an integral migratory reform.

The president John F. Kennedy, who was one of the big promoters of the Law of Civil rights, fulfilled his promise on June 19, 1963 on having presented this legislative project before the Congress. Nevertheless, it could not see her turned into law, since it was murdered on November 22 of the same year. His successor Lyndon B. Johnson had the privilege of promulgating it, making real most of the legislation left by his predecessor.

Forty five years later, we see that the times have changed very much. As there remembers in a declaration the governor of Virginia, Tim Kaine, the above mentioned legislation was approved “during one of the most tumultuous and turbulent epochs of the United States”, and managed to provide “to a new generation of Americans, the promise of freedom and opportunity”. Thanks to this law, in the last November elections the people could choose the first president of African American origin, Barack Obama, something that was difficult to imagine only half a century ago.

Many progresses have been done in the latter 45 years, it is true. Nevertheless, as also the governor Kaine recognizes, “too much inequality and obstacles still persist for many Americans”.

We agree and, as he, we believe that we must keep on fighting the obstacles in our laws “so that we could fulfill truly the promise of the Law of Civil rights and expire with the ideal on which they were founded: that all of us were created be equal”.