SEGREGATION

Segregation was a very controversial topic among both blacks, and whites. There was segregation in schools, transportation, and in voting. Segregation, what was it like? When a black man walked into a restaurant and was refused services just because of the color of his skin. While John F. Kennedy was president, his administration saw the beginning of new hope for equal rights of Americans. There were many different ways blacks were discriminated against. One of …

…I ask you to look into your hearts...for the one plain, proud, and precious quality that unites all Amercans: a sense of justice." This Bill was drafted during Kennedy's administration, but was not signed until July 1964, six months after his assassination. The President did not end racial inequality in the United States, but the civil rights bill was the greatest step towards the end of this inequality, that the federal government had ever taken.