Since Jimmy is an African American he wanted to be able to be apart of the fight for equality and experience the movement firsthand so he decided to travel back in time to the 50's and 60's.

Jimmy arrived in the past on August 19, 1963 so he went to watch the University of Mississippi's graduating class where he saw James Meredith, the first African American to graduate from Ole Miss. Jimmy's teacher had told him that when Meredith was trying to integrate the college many racist people protested and started riots in an attempt to keep a black man out of a school of all white students. James brought the issue to the Supreme Court and won the case over racial discrimination.

Jimmy knew that after Ole Miss, many other schools would soon integrate too, so he went to Little Rock High School in Arkansas where he was proven correct. There he witnessed the Little Rock Nine, a group of 9 black boys and girls, who had just enrolled at the all white high school. It was their first day of school when Jimmy saw Governor Orvall Faubus and the Arkansas National Guard attempt, but fail to stop them from entering the school.

Jimmy remembered about the famous "I Have a Dream" speech that MLK would be giving during this time period so he needed to take a bus from Arkansas to Washington D.C.

Immediately when he stepped onto the bus Jimmy saw Rosa Parks sitting there, minding her own business and knew that there would be chaos any minute. He wanted to warn her about what was going to happen but didn't want to disrupt the space-time continuum. The empty bus quickly filled up and when a white man demanded that she give up her seat she refused since she had been in the "colored section." Parks was arrested and sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott where people didn't use the buses for transportation.

When Jimmy arrived in Washington he was overwhelmed with joy to see how many fellow African Americans showed up to the March on Washington to follow the leader, Martin Luther King Jr. and to be able to listen to his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial. MLK was possibly the most influential African American of this time since he hadn't protested violently and gave the blacks hope for a better tomorrow. This march was his way of protesting against discrimination.

So far Jimmy hadn't encountered any violent protests until 1961 in Birmingham, Alabama. In most of the Southern states there were many African Americans and whites that called themselves Freedom Riders because they took Freedom Rides which were bus rides where these civil rights activists would get off at stops and use what was labeled "whites only." On the day of May 14th Jimmy was on one of the buses that had an angry mob waiting at it's bus stop. Being that he was little he was able to make a run for it but all the other Freedom Riders were violently beaten. Montgomery Police Commissoner Eugene "Bull" Connor knew what was going to happen but didn't send any police protection because it was Mother's Day.

Some people, like Jimmy, don't know that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was originally proposed by President John F. Kennedy but after he had died his Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson became the next president and gets credit for signing the bill into a law. This Civil Rights Act ended segregation and discrimination based on a person's race, gender, ethnicity, etc. The passing of this law was an important turning point in history that helped Jimmy and all other African Americans become one step closer to ending all segregation and having equal rights.