{"id":1078,"date":"2013-06-27T15:25:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T15:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biddle.com\/blog\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2024-11-15T14:39:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T22:39:56","slug":"historic-civil-rights-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biddle.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/27\/historic-civil-rights-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"50th Anniversary of President Kennedy\u2019s Civil Rights Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1083\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/vivianmalone-jameshood1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1083\" class=\"wp-image-1083 size-medium\" title=\"Vivian Malone and James Hood\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/vivianmalone-jameshood1-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"Vivian Malone and James Hood\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biddle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/vivianmalone-jameshood1-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/biddle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/vivianmalone-jameshood1.jpg 793w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: AP News Features Photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>June 11<sup>th<\/sup> marked the 50<sup>th&nbsp;<\/sup>Anniversary of President Kennedy\u2019s Civil Rights Announcement. &nbsp;The day before, a standoff over the desegregation of the University of Alabama help set the stage for the President\u2019s historic speech.<\/p>\n<p>Two African Americans attempted to enroll at the University on June 10, 1963. To fight their enrollment in the all-white school, Alabama Governor George Wallace accompanied state troops to literally block the door preventing them from entering the building. &nbsp;President Kennedy then sent the National Guard to force the school to allow the young people to enroll. The next morning, on June 11<sup>th<\/sup>, Governor Wallace relented and Vivian Malone and James Hood became the first black students at the University of Alabama.<br \/>\n(see photo to the right)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1082\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Kennedy1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1082\" class=\"wp-image-1082 size-medium\" title=\"President John Kennedy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Kennedy1-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"President John Kennedy\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biddle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Kennedy1-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/biddle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Kennedy1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(AP Photo\/Charles Gorry)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That evening President Kennedy announced to the nation his intent to pursue civil rights legislation. In the live televised speech, he called for all Americans to stop and examine his or her \u201cconscience about this and other related incidents. This nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire Civil Rights Announcement by President Kennedy here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/americanexperience\/features\/primary-resources\/jfk-civilrights\/\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/americanexperience\/features\/primary-resources\/jfk-civilrights\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Listen to President Kennedy deliver the Civil Rights Announcement here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanrhetoric.com\/speeches\/jfkcivilrights.htm\">https:\/\/www.americanrhetoric.com\/speeches\/jfkcivilrights.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 11th marked the 50th&nbsp;Anniversary of President Kennedy\u2019s Civil Rights Announcement. &nbsp;The day before, a standoff over the desegregation of the University of Alabama help set the stage for the President\u2019s historic speech. Two African Americans attempted to enroll at the University on June 10, 1963. To fight their enrollment in the all-white school, Alabama [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[33,34],"class_list":{"0":"post-1078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-biddle-news","7":"tag-civil-rights-act","8":"tag-civil-rights-movement-50th-anniversary","9":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>50th Anniversary of President Kennedy\u2019s Civil Rights Announcement &#187; Biddle Consulting Group News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kennedy&#039;s Civil Rights | Biddle Consulting Group is dedicated to providing high quality work in Equal Employment Opportunity Affirmative Action Planning.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/biddle.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/27\/historic-civil-rights-announcement\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"50th Anniversary of President Kennedy\u2019s Civil Rights Announcement &#187; 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