HIST 2620 1nd Edition Lecture 29 Outline of Last Lecture I JFK II Bay of Pigs III Cuban Missile Crisis Outline of Current Lecture II JFK and Civil Rights Current Lecture JFK and Civil Rights JFK voted against Eisenhower on the 1957 Civil Rights Act he takes the lead to make sure the act doesn t get passed he supports the act because it will give him more votes from the African Americans for his next election he focused on class not race he wanted to improve healthcare and wages for the poor he put pressure on civil government services to give jobs to AA he appointed AA judges some things he did for civil rights he put a lot of his administration s attention on foreign policy problems public not interested in Civil Rights because they were interested on foreign policy tries to enforce existing legislation 57 Law Suits regarding voter rights withholds money to states that don t fund desegregated schools Washington Redskins creates CEEO Freedom Rides in 1961 civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to challenge the Supreme Court decisions Irene Morgan v Commonwealth of Virginia and Boynton v Virginia which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional The Southern states had ignored the rulings and the federal government did nothing to enforce them Police arrested riders for trespassing and violating state and local Jim Crow laws but they often first let white mobs attack them without intervention Birmingham received national and international attention for civil rights struggle for African Americans movement s activists were led by Fred Shuttlesworth These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute preacher who became legendary for his fearlessness in the face of violence especially while racists bombed the city known as Bombingham Shuttlesworth requested that Martin Luther King Jr and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference come to Birmingham to help end segregation they launched Project C during April and May daily sit ins and mass marches organized and led by movement leader James Bevel were met with police tear gas attack dogs fire hoses and arrest more than 3 000 people were arrested during these protests almost all of them high school age children protests were successful which led to desegregation of public accommodations in Birmingham and the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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