According to Rosenberg's stats, between 1954 and 1959, the percentage of white Southerners responding that they would not mind sending their kids to school with black kids (type "rose" or "fell" and don't type the quote marks) by percentage points in AIPO polls. By 1963, when asked if anybody was being treated unfairly, percent of the US population of all races said no. When people were asked what is the most important problem facing the country, the number of people who said "civil rights" shot upward (the most impressive single jump) by more than 40 percentage points between the months of and in the year . This was the time of the (town name) demonstrations.