07-11-2018, 05:43 AM
Four Presidents: A Comparison of Civil Rights Actions and Achievements
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FDR[B](13 years in office)[/B]
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TRUMAN[B](7 years in office)[/B]
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EISENHOWER[B](8 years in office)[/B]
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KENNEDY[B](3 years in office)[/B]
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[/TD][TD]Fair Employment Practices in Defense Plants (FEPC)
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[TD]Integrated the Military
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[TD]Sent troops to Little Rock in 1957
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[TD]Orally committed to backing the Brown decision
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2
[/TD][TD]Appointed African Americans as policy advisors
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[TD]Tried to pass a civil rights bill
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[TD]Established Civil Rights Commission
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[TD]Indicted school officials who defied court orders on Brown
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3
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[TD]Made speeches on civil rights in 1952
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[TD]Created a Free Schools district when Virginia decided to drop public education
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4
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[TD]First administration to join civil rights cases as a plaintiff, not a friend of the court
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[TD]Petitioned the ICC to integrate interstate busing and terminals
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[TD]Systematically began to file cases to break down denial of voting rights in the South
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[TD]Financed voter registration drives in the South
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8
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[TD]Began the drive to ban poll taxes with the 24th amendment
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[TD]Started a massive and rigorous affirmative action program in all branches of federal government
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10
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[TD]Announced that no member of his administration would join a segregated establishment or speak at a segregated event
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[TD]Revived FDR's FEPC with the CEEO
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[TD]Established rigorous contract and grant requirements to integrate private colleges in the South
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[TD]Established a program to make federal contractors follow non-discriminatory hiring practices
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[TD]Carried out court orders to integrate the last public universities in the South
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[TD]Exploiting an exception to the law, sent in federal marshals and troops to Oxford, Mississippi and to Alabama during the Freedom Rides
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[TD]Signed the Housing Act of 1962
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[TD]Negotiated a settlement to the Birmingham demonstration in 1963
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[TD]Endorsed the March on Washington in 1963
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[TD]In a nationally televised address of 6/11/63, made the most forceful presidential address on civil rights since Lincoln
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[TD]Established the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights in 1963 to represent victims of civil rights abuses in the South
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[TD]Submitted the epochal Civil Rights Act of 1964 and began a massive lobbying program to pass it
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