After JFK’s assassination in 1963, Lynda B Johnson picked up JFK’s social reform objectives on poverty and civil rights. LBJ worked to support poor and unemployed Americans and helped Congress pass the 24th Amendment which ended voting discrimination. Also, LBJ helped Congress pass the Civil Rights Act, ending discrimination in hotels and restaurants ending discriminatory employment practices based on race, and schools would be sued if they ignored the laws of segregation. This created the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunities Commission) causing most business in the south to immediately desegregate. The number of blacks registered to vote was still very low causing MLK and other Civil Rights protesters aimed at getting three million black voters to register. They formed a march from Selma to Montgomery. Shortly after the march began police used tear gas and whips to disperse the group. Federal courts backed MLK and company and allowed them to continue their march with protection from the national guard and military police. This gave LBJ incentive to pass the voting rights act of 1965. All citizens had equal right to vote. This worked and hundreds of thousands of black voters began registering. Blacks moved back to the South and started to create a political difference.