During JFK's administration what major civil rights movement took place?
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jfk did not get a lot done on this issue, though he was a proponent of civil rights (some say that led to his assasination) but there was little legislation passed during his era...johnson, his vp did most of that (as unpopular as he was) after jfk's assasination....though there were milestones during kennedy's tenure...go to the wikepedia site, and look up civil rights
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they were all civil rights leaders, and worked toward that end using some variety of non-violent action. Booker T. went toward the "boot-straps" idea, DuBois was more about getting the white man off his back, and MLK took to the streets.
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Martin Luther King Jr., also protested for many African Americans to have the right to vote in certain southern states like Alabamba, Missississippi, Louisiana, etc. \nCheck out this source to find more information for your report.
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You'll have to do this homework assignment yourself. But you can get started by reading:\n\nhttp://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_civil_rights_movement
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I.The Erosion of Segregation\n\na. in the early 1900s, Booker T. Washington urged blacks to temporarily put aside their desire for political equality and focus instead on economic security\naa. Washington outlined his ideas at the Atlanta Exposition in 1905\nab. became known as the Atlanta Compromise\nb. W.E.B. Du Bois rejected Washington's ideas\nba. believed blacks must work for social and political equality\nbb. in 1905, helped organize conference in Niagara Falls, Ontario to discuss racial progress\nbba. this began the Niagara Movement\nbbb. called for:\n"full civil liberties\n"and end to racial discrimination\n"recognition of human brotherhood\nc. some black leaders, frustrated by violence and discrimination, urged blacks to emigrate to Africa\nca. \nMarcus Garvey organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association to foster black pride and economic power\ncb. Garvey also organized a "Back To Africa" movement\ncba. encouraged blacks to emigrate to Africa to establish a country and government on their own\nd. 1909, Mary White Ovington, a white social worker, helped organize a nation conference on the "Negro Question"\nda. from this conference the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) originated\ndb. by 1914, the NAACP had 50 branches and 6,000 members\n\n II.The End of Segregation\n\na. May 17, 1954 Supreme Court overturned the decision of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) in the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS (1954)\naa. Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote the unanimous decision\nab. said that separate educational facilities are inherently unequal\nac. followed up with a second ruling in 1955 that said that the South must use "all deliberate speed" to obey the Brown decision\nb. 1954, 101 southern congressmen signed the Southern Manifesto denouncing the court's "unwarranted decision" in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) as a "clear abuse of judicial power" that "substituted the Justices' personal political and social ideas for the established law of the land"\nba. manifesto vowed to use "all lawful means to bring about a reversal of this decision which is contrary to the Constitution"\nbb. Texas senator Lyndon Johnson and two Tennessee senators - Al Gore, Sr. and Estes Kefauver - refused to sign it\nc. 1956, Autherine Lucy became first black student admitted to the University of Alabama\nca.  she was expelled three days later "for her own safety" in response to threats from a mob\ncb. crowds chanted , "Hey, hey, ho, ho, Autherine's got to go!"\nd. 1956, the national headquarters of the NAACP asked the U.S. district court to force immediate and complete desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas\nda. September 1957, the Little Rock, Ark. School Board decided to let nine black students enroll at Central High School\ndb. Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus refused to let the students in\ndc. September 3, Arkansas Governor Faubus called out the National Guard to prevent desegregation of Central High School\ndd. ordered to remove National Guard, by the Federal Government\nde. President Eisenhower met with Faubus\ndea. Faubus agreed to remove the national guard\ndeb. the students were left to the mercy of the angry mob outside the school\ndec. police escorted "the Little Rock Nine" out of the school\ndf.  September 24, Eisenhower federalized the National Guard and called in 101st Airborne\ndda. guard remained at the school for the rest of the school year\ndg. 1958-1959- Little Rock public schools were closed for the year under Governor Faubus' orders dga.  reopened integrated in 1959\ne. December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a Montgomery seamstress, was arrested for refusing her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama\nea. Martin Luther King, Jr. - a 27-year old Montgomery minister - helped organize a boycott of Montgomery city buses\neaa. the city's bus sys
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"The day history books changed forever was when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, December 1, 1955, the day most historians consider the beginning of the modern civil rights movement in the United States. The brave, quiet woman, known as "quiet strength," was arrested and fined for violating a city ordinance, but her lonely act of defiance began a movement that ended legal segregation in America and made her an inspiration to freedom-loving people everywhere. Rosa was 42 when she refused to give up her seat and the bus boycott began."
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G'day Thwe,\n\nThank you for your question.\n\nThe Chicago Convention generally refers to the 1968 Democratic Convention held in Chicago. It nominated Hubert Humphrey as the candidate for President.  It saw wild protests against the process and the Vietnam War. Many people sawthe actions taken by the Chicago Police Force to suppress the protests as unreasonable force.\n\nI have attached sources for your reference.\n\nRegards
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Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr. (December 19, 1899–November 11, 1984) was a Baptist minister, an early civil rights leader and an advocate for social justice. He was also the father of American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., who was born in 1929. The elder King led the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, and his personal example helped inspire Martin Luther King Jr. to enter the ministry. King Sr. was also a significant leader of the civil rights movement, becoming the head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People chapter in Atlanta and of the Civic and Political League, and encouraging his son to become active in the movement. After King Jr.'s death, his father continued to be active in public life, and played a role in Jimmy Carter's presidential victory in 1976.
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It was the mob.  Look back at how many ties the whole Kennedy family had to the mob.  President Kennedy changed his mind about some issues.  The mob didn't like that.
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If it had not been for slavery, the civil rights movement would not have been necessary. \n\nThe purpose of the civil rights movement was to correct the damage done by slavery and 100 years of oppression that followed.
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Lyndon Baines Johnson was the president after John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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In my opinion the Democrats of JFK's day were more moderate and the center has shifted over the years. I could go on all day  about this but just some highlights of my view on this.  In the 50s and 60s democrats like JFK went to church and believed more in family values. Today they have shifted more to freedom choice to do what you want and Republicans have moved out of their elitist position and more toward the center. Far right and far left have become more radical and opposed. Immigrants in those day came to America in search of democracy and generally gravitated to the Democratic party because they believed that other parties did not stand for democracy. Although that's not true. Today those that have educated themselves, I believe gravitate to the values of the republican party. Thus the Republicans have become the new democrats. JFK was a moderate, strong on defense issues and family values despite his indiscretions. As Attorney General Robert Kennedy went after crime aggressively. Republicans were more about money and power. Things have changed.
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I suppose you're talking about Martin Luther King JR.  He was a Baptist minister and activist who petitioned for equal rights for African Americans and other colored people.  He's probably most famous for his "I have a dream" speech which he gave on the Lincoln Memorial in front of thousands of African Americans.  He was assassinated on April 4th, 1968 at a hotel in Memphis.\n\nIf you're by some chance talking about Martin Luther King SR., he was also a civil right activist but I do not know much about him.
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Mysterious assassination of JFK\n\nWatergate\n\nIrangate
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By 1965 concerted efforts to break the grip of state disfranchisement had been under way for some time, but had achieved only modest success overall and in some areas had proved almost entirely ineffectual. The murder of voting-rights activists in Philadelphia, Mississippi, gained national attention, along with numerous other acts of violence and terrorism. Finally, the unprovoked attack on March 7, 1965, by state troopers on peaceful marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, en route to the state capitol in Montgomery, persuaded the President and Congress to overcome Southern legislators' resistance to effective voting rights legislation. President Johnson issued a call for a strong voting rights law and hearings began soon thereafter on the bill that would become the Voting Rights Act.
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I Have a Dream\n\nhttp://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm\n\nVoices for Freedom\n\nThe Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's and 1970's has produced some the most passionate and moving speeches in American History. The list below will give you a good insight into how Activists got their messages out, and what they were fighting for. \n\nhttp://www.albany.edu/dept/sisp/jjpowers/WebCollabS05/civilrights/products.html\n\nThe Civil Rights Movement (1954-1969)\n\nhttp://www.uwm.edu/~jnelsen/ushist/contents.html\n\nMARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. WEBSITES\n\nA comprehensive site with lots of links.\n\nhttp://www.cumbavac.org/Martin_Luther_King.htm\n\nMartin Luther King Jr (1929 - 1968)\n\nhttp://www.thekingcenter.org/\n\nhttp://www.extension.umn.edu/units/diversity/mlk/mlk.html\n\nhttp://who2.com/martinlutherkingjr.html\n\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/king_martin_luther.shtml\n\nA Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.\n\nHistory is indeed made up of significant events which shape our future and outstanding leaders who influence our destiny.\n\nhttp://www.liu.edu/CWIS/CWP/library/mlking.htm\n\nhttp://www.liu.edu/CWIS/CWP/library/aaslvwww.htm\n\nMartin Luther King © \n\nKing was born in Atlanta, Georgia. His father was pastor of a Baptist church, his mother a schoolteacher. Originally named Michael, he was renamed Martin when he was about six years old. \n\nHe entered Morehouse College in 1944, and here he met Dr Benjamin Mays, a scholar who encouraged him to enter the ministry. After graduating in 1948, King went to Crozer Religious Seminary to undertake post-graduate study. He received his doctorate in 1955.\n\nhttp://www.stanford.edu/group/King/\n\nMartin Luther King, Jr.: A Biographical Sketch\n\nhttp://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/mlk/srs218.html\n\nA Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.\n\nHistory is indeed made up of significant events which shape our future and outstanding leaders who influence our destiny. \n\nhttp://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/mlking.htm\n\nIntroduction:\n\nThe following lesson encourages students to reflect on nonviolence as an instrument to change unjust laws by studying the Birmingham Campaign of 1963. \n\nhttp://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/index.html\n\nDr. Martin Luther King Jr. establishes himself as the national leader of the civil rights movement, leading boycotts and staging protests against segregation in the South.\n\nhttp://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/king/photogallery.html\n\nHe touched the heart and spirit of this white man, his message transcends time and resonates in the lessons I teach to my two young sons, a message of equality, peace, understanding and a celebration of difference rather than a fear of difference. He was taken from us by a spiteful and ignorant man, a man who personified the evil of a society that feared a man of peace and solidarity. We miss you Martin, I miss you Martin..!!!\n\n"I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their tired bodies, education and culture for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, men other-centered can build up. I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and non-violent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land 'and the lion and the lamb shall lie down together and every man shall sit under his own vine and fig tree and none shall be afraid.' I still believe that we shall overcome." \n\nMartin Luther King, Jr.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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The biggest issue of the sixties was putting a man on the moon.  Then Kennedy was shot and that was all but overshadowed by the same bunch who brought us Iraq taking us into Vietnam.  Then there was Martin Luther King and the civil rights  movement.  The time was about freedom, the rights of men and women, and what this country should be about.  Some of these issues made it through, while the movement itself was systematically crushed,  partly by the shooting deaths of both Kennedy brothers, Martin Luther King, the students at Kent State, the police riot in Chicago against the war demonstrators.  "We  will have no more of this" was the message that came through loud and clear.