John F. Kennedy Civil Rights Address Part 1

John F. Kennedy, Civil Rights Address, delivered 11 June 1963
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Excerpt: Good evening, my fellow citizens:

This afternoon, following a series of threats and defiant statements, the presence of Alabama National Guardsmen was required on the University of Alabama to carry out the final and unequivocal order of the United States District Court of the Northern District of Alabama. That order called for the admission of two clearly qualified young Alabama residents who happened to have been born Negro. That they were admitted peacefully on the campus is due in good measure to the conduct of the students of the University of Alabama, who met their responsibilities in a constructive way.

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John F. Kennedy cared about all the people and if one person has o rights then no one has any. it should be illegal to discriminate against any one even the poor. the poor have no just courts it is all pre-justice. so if the civil rights act helped the black person then they better damn well not be poor the time is here or there is going to be riots in the streets open your eyes and see what is going on America