HISTORY

President Kennedy and the Civil Rights Movement



President Kennedy and the Civil Rights Movement

Early Civil Rights Acts

The civil right act was the first legislative act that was initiated in 1957. It was an act which was taken for the rights in the reconstruction period soon after the civil war. As soon as the legislative was accomplished, a commission was made to analyze the problem and develop a division of civil right in the Justice department.

In the year of 1958

In the fall of 1957, the commitment to the assimilation of the concept of public schools arising from the decision of Brown was then positioned to. A total of 9 students started to attend the white school provoked and initiated a conflict. The governor of that time who was Orval E. Faubus ordered the national guards to maintain peace by not allowing the African American Students to attend the white school. President Eisenhower later came into power after overruling Faubus and ordered the troop of the national guards to protect the 9 African American Students thereby ensuring the integration of the national enforcement. Eisenhower overruled Faubus in the year of 1890 and went on till 1969. President Eisenhower signed the law of the Civil Right Act in the year of 1960 and on a weekly basis dealt with the problem of the voting rights.

In the middle of 1950's and 1960's, the African American Students initiated to protest against the concept of having a segregated restaurant of the whites and the African American. They protested by having a “sit in” demonstrations. In the early days of 1960's such demonstration of protest reoccurred and this time it was able to attract the national attention. It occurred in North Carolina in Greensboro. This act of protesting against segregation also had an impact on the concept ...