The idea of a march was first conceived in 1941, when Randolph threatened President Franklin D. Roosevelt to assemble 100,000 African Americans in the capital, if he refused to sign an executive order banning discrimination in the defense industries and creating the Fair Employment Committee. Randolph’s idea sparked up again more than 20 years later. His main focus for the march was the same as the previous marches. He along with others demanded equality in the job industries and education. In a December 1962 meeting, Randolph and Bayard Dustin began to plan the March on Washington.
He tried to persuade Wallace to stop the state harassment of the protesters. Two nights later, on March 15, 1965, Johnson presented a bill to a joint session of Congress. The bill itself would later pass and become the Voting Rights Act. Johnson's speech in front of Congress was considered to be a watershed moment for the civil rights movement; Johnson even used the movement's most famous slogan "We shall
Jade Johnson Professor Miller English 1304 15 April 2014 MLK Martin Luther King Jr. goes down in history as one of the principal leaders of the civil rights movement in the United States and a noticeable advocate of nonviolent protest. King's challenges to segregation and racial discrimination helped convince many white Americans to support the cause of civil rights in the United States. Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, GA on January 15, 1929. He went to Booker T. Washington High School. He was so smart that he skipped two grades in high school and started his college education at Morehouse College at the young age of fifteen.
In 1964 Congress passes the Civil Rights Act this outlawed segregation in public accommodations and discrimination in employment and education. Martin Luther King Jr. joins the voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery. While there police beat and tear gas marchers. Martin goes before the rally and speaks at the state capitol, he builds support for voting rights. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed.
In January 1964, the President declared his “unconditional war on poverty” with the passage of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. This law created Community Action Programs, which aimed to help those who found themselves below the poverty line. Moreover, the administration established the Job Corps to train recent male high-school graduates for skilled employment. Recognizing hunger as a serious issue of his time, President Johnson proposed the Food Stamp Act of 1964, which launched nationally the next year. The President also revisited a tax cut that was originally proposed by the Kennedy administration but shot down by conservatives, as they believed it would raise the federal deficit.
Kennedy is now in office as of 1961, he is the youngest president elected in US history. In the beginning of his time he was more worried about foreign policy but then 1963 tides had changed. The civil rights movement was going head on and JFK had noticed something needed to be done. “...to call for the passage of a law banning discrimination in all places of public accommodation, a major goal of the civil rights movement”(Foner 964). It wasn't till after JFK was assassinated that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed.
The organization also publishes a monthly magazine known as the "Multinational Monitor." In 2001, Ralph Nader started up another non-profit organization known as Democracy Rising. This organization was dedicated to ending the War in Iraq, and bringing the troops back to America. The political opinions that Ralph Nader is so well known for would make him one of the highest rated presidents that America has ever seen. In his 2000 bid for the presidency Ralph Nader campaigned against the corporate powers dominance in the political landscape as well as the need for change in the manner of how presidential races are held.
As a result, President Kennedy in an exceptional message to Congress on February 28, 1963, declared “the democratic principle that no man should be deprived of employment commensurate with his abilities because of his race or creed or ancestry” (Dirksen Center, 2006). After over one year of debate in the U.S. Congress, on July 2, 1964, President Kennedy signed into the bill containing the Title VII provisions “defining unfair employment practices and providing for their prevention” (Vass, 1966). After the Act’s passage in 1964, subsequent amendments were added to further support the law such as the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 (PDA), the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), and the Civil Rights Act of 1991 (Apollo Library, 2008). All of these amendments acknowledged additional areas of workplace discrimination and empowered the EEOC to provide remedies to workers who had experienced workplace discrimination based on age, pregnancy, or disability while the Civil Rights Act of 1991 included provisions for jury trials, compensatory and punitive damages (Bennett-Alexander and Hartman, 2007). For example, the ADEA had employers from refusing to hire or discharge on the bases of age while the PDA prohibits employers from “using pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions” as a reason for treating an employee differently than other employees.
Inside of the time capsule we found a Book. It was about John F. Kennedy, elected the 35th President of the United States in 1960 and who had picked Lyndon B. Johnson to be his Vice President. He wanted to prove to people that a “Roman Catholic can become President of the United States” which he accomplished. One of his most famous lines came from his inaugural address, “Ask not what your country can do for you –ask what you can do for your country.” Considering that in the years following this speech the United States became more of an everyone-is-out-for-themselves-and-to-hell-with-anyone-else philosophy, the JFK quote was wonderfully said. He was also responsible for starting the Peace Corps, which sent American Volunteers around the
MLK Monument The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial project started as a result of efforts of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity of whom King was a member of the organization while he was attending Boston University. Originally, Alpha Phi Alpha proposed erecting a monument in Washington D.C. shortly after the King was assassinated in 1968. Again the organization renew attempts to established a national monument after King’s birthday was designated a national holiday. After these numerous attempts, the U.S. Congress authorized the Secretary of the Interior to permit Alpha Phi Alpha to establish a memorial, however over $100 million dollars needed to be raised. Through multiple foundations and philanthropists funding the project and after an extraneous