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The article offers the author's insights on the significance of August 28 in the history of African-American struggle. He says that on the said date in 1955, 14-year-old Emmet Till was kinapped and killed, marking the launch of the Civil Rights Movement in America. It says that Senator Strom Thurmond held a filibuster to obstruct the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. He suggests that Americans should stay involved in the struggles by participating in the November 2012 elections.

Civil Rights Act was a turning point in the decades-long struggle against segregation and discrimination. When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the legislation into law on July 2, 1964, America took one step closer to becoming a country which truly judges not by the color of skin but by the content of character. However, the Civil Rights Act was not something that simply happened, nor was it something that happened simply. It was one step in a long and difficult Civil Rights Movement, one stained with the blood and built upon the sweat of those Americans whose dedication to liberty and equality was stronger than that to their own self-preservation. America celebrates 40th anniversary of the Act in 2004.