Civil Rights and Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower
This discussion is from a conference on “The Presidency and Civil Rights” held at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Libra…
CBS reporter David Schoenbrun reads the 15th Amendment. Demanding states-wide enforcement in 1962, President Kennedy promises to achieve this, if necessary, with new law (i.e., the posthumous Voting Rights Act of 1965).
This discussion is from a conference on “The Presidency and Civil Rights” held at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Libra…
On the 50th anniversary of the April 17, 1961, Bay of Pigs Invasion historians were joined by Alfredo Duran, a Cuban exi…
Juan Williams moderated a discussion of civil rights activism in the 1960s and the efforts by James Meredith and lawyers…
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library convened a day-long conference on the presidency and civil rights. During the c…