February 1st 1960, marks the of the first sit-in ,Greensboro North Carolina. The sit-in movement led to a more aggressive militant group of protesters Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee SNCC.Spawn 1961 members of Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) began the Freedom Riders, dealing with Interstate bus transit. JFK became involved by negotiating a compromise with Southern authorities that guaranteed safety of riders in exchange for the federal government not protesting their arrest by Southern City and local authorities. Integration at the University of Mississippi in 1962 became the focus of another JFK intervention. The letter from a Birmingham Jail came in March 1963, Martin Luther King.
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both JFK and his brother Robert Kennedy Attorney General, attempted negotiating with George Wallace. The Civil Rights Movement was growing and becoming more militant leading Kennedy To ask Congress for laws supporting voting rights providing assistance to school districts that were desegregating and tube and segregation of all public facilities and to empower the Attorney General to initiate proceedings against the segregation of
both JFK and his brother Robert Kennedy Attorney General, attempted negotiating with George Wallace. The Civil Rights Movement was growing and becoming more militant leading Kennedy To ask Congress for laws supporting voting rights providing assistance to school districts that were desegregating and tube and segregation of all public facilities and to empower the Attorney General to initiate proceedings against the segregation of