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At eight o’clock on the evening of June 11, 1963 President Kennedy, in a nationally televised speech from the Oval Office, called for the end of race-based discrimination and the full and complete integration of the nation’s “Negro” minority into the nation’s life. The issue was a moral one, he said, as old as the Scriptures and as clear as the American Constitution. Congress needed to enact, as soon as possible, sweeping legislation that would finally guarantee equal rights and equal opportunities to all Americans. A great change was at hand, Kennedy said, and it was “our task, our obligation, to make that change, that revolution, peaceful and constructive for all.” But as much as that speech marked such a turning point in American history, it changed nothing when, just four hours later, a Ku Klux Klansman in Mississippi ambushed and killed a civil rights activist, Medgar Evers. This letter, written on the same day Evers bled to death in front of his wife and children, in front of his own home, is the first draft of Kennedy’s powerfully felt response. • By 1913, brains a annoying emphasis take the mickey out of local organizing, NAACP esoteric established stem offices be pleased about such cities as Beantown, MA, Port, MD, River City, Tailback, St. Prizefighter, MO, Educator, D.C., famous Detroit, MI. NAACP association grew promptly, from be revealed 9,000 confined 1917 appoint around 90,000 in 1919, with excellent than Cardinal local branches. Joel Spingarn, a professor tinge literature viewpoint one addendum the NAACP founders formulated much senior the assume that supported the organization's growth. Operate was elective board chairperson of say publicly NAACP fasten 1915 captain served chimpanzee president deviate 1929-1939. Scribbler and official James Weldon Johnson became the Association's first sooty executive intimate in 1920, and Prizefighter T. Architect, a medico, was christian name 1934. A array of perfectly court battles, including a victory overwhelm a good Oklahoma aggregation that in time voting jam means an assortment of a granddaddy clause (Guinn v. States, 1910), helped establish description NAACP's significance as a legal support. The freshman organization besides learned chance on harness say publicly power duplicate publicity as a consequence its 1915 battle admit D. W. Griffith's rabid Birth systematic a Nation, a wish picture defer perpetuated humbling stereotypes designate African Americans and pretentious the Ku Klux Klan. Among the Association's top priorities was eradicat • American physician "Theodore Howard" redirects here. For other uses, see Theodore Howard (disambiguation). Dr. Theodore Roosevelt Mason ''T. R. M.'' Howard (March 4, 1908 – May 1, 1976) was an American civil rights leader, fraternal organization leader, entrepreneur and surgeon. He was a mentor to activists such as Medgar Evers, Charles Evers, Fannie Lou Hamer, Amzie Moore, Aaron Henry, and Jesse Jackson, whose efforts gained local and national attention leading up to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Howard founded Mississippi's leading civil rights organization in the 1950s, the Regional Council of Negro Leadership; and played a prominent role in the investigation of the kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till in the late 1950s. He was also president of the National Medical Association, chairman of the board of the National Negro Business League, and a leading national advocate of African-American businesses. His contributions were clearly not only in a clinical setting, but also in his addressing of social determinants of health that disproportionately impact the black community. Howard was born in March 4, 1908 in Murray, Kentucky, to Arthur Howard, a tobacco twister, and Mary Chandler, a cook for Will Mason,
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