"Our goal must be an educational system in the spirit of the declaration of independence - a system in which all are created equal," - JFK
"A system in which every child, whether born a banker's son in a Long Island mansion, or a Negro sharecropper's son in an Alabama cotton field, has every opportunity for an education that his abilities and character deserve." - JFK
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President John F. Kennedy took office in January of 1961. During this time African Americans were still fighting for their civil rights especially throughout the South. The Civil Right Movement had started to strengthen the road for the future of African Americans. During Kennedy's first year of presidency he appointed unprecedented numbers of African Americans to high-level positions in the administration and strengthened the Civil Rights Commission. He spoke out in favor of school desegregation, praised a number of cities for integrating their schools, and put Vice President Lyndon Johnson in charge of the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. Attorney General Robert Kennedy turned his attention to voting rights, initiating five times the number of suits brought during the previous administration.
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