John Kennedy phoned his wife, Coretta Scott King to express his concern, while a call from Robert Kennedy to the judge helped secure her husband's safe release.
Just a few weeks before the election, Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested while leading a protest in Atlanta, Georgia. The Election of 1960īy the 1960 presidential campaign, civil rights had emerged as a crucial issue. Roughly 50,000 young people joined the protests that year. Sit‑ins and other protests swept across the South in early 1960, touching more than 65 cities in 12 states. Within days, more than 50 students had volunteered to continue the sit-in, and within weeks the movement had spread to other college campuses. They were refused service, and they refused to leave their seats. In February 1960, four black college students sat down at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and asked to be served. But, even after Little Rock, school integration was painfully slow, and segregation in general remained largely untouched.
Eisenhower enforced the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas. In 1957, National Guard troops under orders from President Dwight D.
led a boycott that ended segregated busing in Montgomery, Alabama. The pace of civil rights protests rose sharply in response to the Supreme Court's decision. By the end of the 1950s, fewer than 10 percent of black children in the South were attending integrated schools. As a result, school desegregation proceeded very slowly. Many southern political leaders claimed the desegregation decision violated the rights of states to manage their systems of public education, and they responded with defiance, legal challenges, delays, or token compliance. Board of Education that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Brown v. But the civil rights movement had made important progress, and change was on the way. In the North, black Americans also faced discrimination in housing, employment, education, and many other areas. Kennedy became president in 1961, African Americans throughout much of the South were denied the right to vote, barred from public facilities, subjected to insults and violence, and could not expect justice from the courts.
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