How Did Jfk Assassination Impact The Civil Right

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Axel Ortega
8th writing
10/31/16

What is the first thing you come up with your head when I say “Who free the blacks or the colors?” The first thing that comes into mind is Abraham Lincoln, a man who free them but why was there the civil right? The civil right started 1954 and slaves were freed in 1863. How are BLACKS (or colors) free today? The thing is there was a man who stops it and you might know him as a president, a white male, a nice man, famous for the Cuban Missile Crisis, famous for the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, famous for the Alliance for Progress, famous for his own assassination, famous for his idea of the space race, famous for the pt 109 but never in the civil right movement. It was the one and only John F Kennedy. He impacted the civil right in many ways and there are three main keys and after this essay, you will see that Abraham Lincoln did something but JFK did a big impact even when killed.
John F Kennedy impacted the civil right, even when dead because he made many promises to all the …show more content…

Yes, he did impact the civil right even when killed and this is what happen. In jfklibrary.org is said “ It was not passed, however, before November 22, 1963, when President Kennedy was assassinated. The bill was left in the hands of Lyndon B. Johnson. Before becoming vice president, Johnson had served more than two decades in Congress as a congressman and senator from Texas. He used his connections with southern white congressional leaders, and with the assistance of Robert Kennedy’s Justice Department and the outpouring of emotion after the president's assassination, the Civil Rights Act was passed as the way to honor President Kennedy of his assassination.” This shows that if JFK was never assassinated the act would not pass because it said in the text that it was not passed and if still alive it would not pass and the blacks will still have no right and nothing at

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