50 years ago today, the president gave his now-famous Civil Rights Address. But it was Martin Luther King Jr. and the Birmingham protesters who deserved the credit.
President John F. Kennedy's relationship with civil rights was far from simple. Host Michel Martin speaks with one of the last living leaders of the civil rights movement, Georgia Representative John Lewis, about his own relationship with President Kennedy. Stanford historian Clayborne Carson also joins the conversation.
John F Kennedy is not automatically associated with civil rights issues as Kennedyâ??s presidency is more famed for the Cuban Missile Crisis and issues surrounding the Cold War.
In the early 1960s, the fundamental prize sought by the civil rights movement was something that African Americans had never known: full legal equality.
The Civil Rights Address was a speech on civil rights, delivered on radio and television by U.S. President John F. Kennedy from the Oval Office on June 11, 1963 in which he proposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
50 years ago today, the president gave his now-famous Civil Rights Address. But it was Martin Luther King Jr. and the Birmingham protesters who deserved the credit.
President John F. Kennedy's relationship with civil rights was far from simple. Host Michel Martin speaks with one of the last living leaders of the civil rights movement, Georgia Representative John Lewis, about his own relationship with President Kennedy. Stanford historian Clayborne Carson also joins the conversation.
John F Kennedy is not automatically associated with civil rights issues as Kennedyâ??s presidency is more famed for the Cuban Missile Crisis and issues surrounding the Cold War.
In the early 1960s, the fundamental prize sought by the civil rights movement was something that African Americans had never known: full legal equality.
The Civil Rights Address was a speech on civil rights, delivered on radio and television by U.S. President John F. Kennedy from the Oval Office on June 11, 1963 in which he proposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
