Presidents in Civil rights

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• Desegregated the military, he ensured intergration in the korean war. Politicised blacks.

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• public support of civil rights published in 1947, wanted lynching to be a criminal offence, for interstate bus travel to be desegregated (Morgan V Virginia de jure change the previous year) etc.

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• Following Brown vs Board 1954, Eisenhower had to federalize the town of Little Rock in order to protect black students attending Central high in order to desegregate the school from lynch mobs and violence from white protesters.

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• Voting rights went up from 3% to 25%. Still many limitations such as literary tests and the grandfather clause preventing 3/4's of the black population from voting.

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• Eisenhower appointed Earl Warren as chief justice of the supreme court who focused on civil rights cases such as Brown V Board, radically pro-civil rights. Eisenhower once stated that he didn't realize how radical Warren was in terms of civil rights.

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• Assainated before he could even propose it to congress. Followed out by Lyndon Johnson in 1964.

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• outlawed Jim crow in public facilities e.g parks, any segregated schools would not receive funding etc.

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• Equal housing act

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• Removed obstacles for black voters such as literacy tests. grandfather clause, demand for ID ect.

1. Preoccupied with Vietnam