How Did Truman Act Upon The Air Of Civil Rights

In 1947, President Truman’s Committee on Civil Rights issued “To Secure These Rights.” The text emphasizes the government’s responsibility to protect Black people amid unfair treatment regarding employment, housing, and voting, while drawing on the morality of Americans to stand for the freedom that the nation claimed to uphold. The statement recognized that the federal government should interfere in instances of “serious wrongs” —discriminatory housing policies to lynchings—committed by private individuals or law enforcement officers against Black Americans. To some extent, Truman did act upon this air of civil rights. A year after the Committee published the indictment on the country, Truman promoted antiracist ideas by racially integrating
Travelling to Washington to protest, civil rights leaders continued to hold the belief that federal backing was necessary to incite change, but the atmosphere of this movement now sought to dismantle other shortcomings of the nation like poverty. To some degree, President Kennedy did meet the movement’s demands against discrimination: after declaring racial inequality a “moral issue” in 1963, Kennedy introduced the Civil Rights Act, prohibiting racial discrimination in employment, public institutions, and private businesses. Congress passed the Act in 1964, but under the Johnson administration after Kennedy’s assassination. On the other hand, Kennedy did not issue outright support for the movement until after white resistors to the movement assaulted peaceful protesters in instances like the Freedom Rides in the South or the protest in Birmingham, the latter’s events being broadcast on television for the world to witness acts of brutality like police beatings, high-pressure fire hoses, and attack dogs used on