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Objective 8.4- Kennedy and Civil Rights

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Island Sound Florida by 1961 the Civil Rights Movement was gearing up for bold action silver rights groups set a snake the SCLC core and the n-double-acp playing big campaigns in the South these campaigns aimed provoke action and draw attention to the cause hopefully the good coverage with Force Kennedy to act on civil rights and these campaigns start with the Freedom Riders in 1961 core set young black and white activist on bus is to the South the idea was to challenge segregation laws on buses in Southern States in Alabama State officials promise JFK that they would protect the writers but they lied and Ma firebomb the buses and beat the passenger severely stop must be broken down Rose restaurant  call Freedom ride  will continue Freedom ride not sure that I'll be able to we're going on to New Orleans outrage JFK's and 400 US Marshals to escort the writers to their stock media reports violence in JFK's action caused a public outcry on the issue and the JFK Administration order the integration of all transportation in the United States with momentum in the Civil Rights Movement the next move comes in 1963 the southern Christian Leadership Council and Martin Luther King jr. plan a peaceful march on the city of Birmingham Alabama Birmingham was Notorious most segregated city in the United States during the demonstration Martin Luther King Jr's arrested and thrown in jail letter from a Birmingham Jail cell where's become a Manifesto of the movement and declare the goals and aims that King and his followers would like to achieve they are his blueprint to integrate America when Martin Luther King jr. is released from jail the protests continued in the city of Birmingham but this time King stages a Children's March the media had to send it on Birmingham and we're broadcasting the demonstrations live on TV every night the Birmingham Police Department came out during the march to break up the demonstrations the Nightly News broadcasted images and video every night to American households of the Birmingham police Liz kid protesters in the streets the police sick dogs on the protesters they sprayed them with powerful water hoses and they beat them after growing movement of boycotts and protests give me a Birmingham gives in and desegregates itself Americans everywhere were shocked at the images and just how bad racism was in southern cities President Kennedy was inspired as well when the images of the Birmingham March immediately proposed the sweeping new civil rights law to be passed through Congress this law would become the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with this Victory Civil Right kruetzfeldt they had a friend in Kennedy challenge Jim Crow laws and other areas of Southern Society with presidential support they could do away with segregation for get their attention turned next to say Creation in higher education in September of 1962 Air Force vet James Meredith wish to enroll as a student in the University of Old Miss once he arrived turn Mississippi refuses entry and block the door similarly in June of 1963 notorious Alabama Governor George Wallace lock the door at the University of Alabama to refuse black students in both cases Perkins word mitad by federal law federal Authority surpasses States right in this issue with the Civil Rights Movement taking them or violent turned the Freedom Writers the Birmingham March and the integration a boldness and the University of Alabama Martin Luther King jr. in violence through the March on Washington August 1963 200,000 civil rights supporters gathered on the National Mall and marched to the Lincoln Memorial the site of huge crowds calling for change call the listen to the Civil Rights bill that President Kennedy had proposed members of Congress and the Senate felt pressure to pass the law and to enhance equality for blacks in America the crowd was a mixture of African White's women children and Men it was a broad endorsement of equal rights across the races in America once at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial Martin Luther King jr. deliver his power I Have a Dream speech the speech was recorded Andrey broadcasted late at night and printed in the next day's newspapers the sign of huge crowds calling for Change and the voice of Martin Luther King on the steps the Lincoln Memorial call the tension to the Civil Rights bill that President Kennedy had proposed members of Congress and the Senate felt immense pressure to pass the law in order to enhance equality for ultimately the March on Washington help lead to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964  I have a dream  then one day this nation will rise up live out the true meaning of its Creed we hold these to be self-evident that all men are created

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