During the Great Migration in 1910-1920 thousands of African American’s poured into the industrial cities to find work. After freedom summer was launched in Mississippi members of the congress in Washington D.C debated a new civil rights bill. After president Kennedy, who was assassinated in November 1963, failed to get any civil rights passed. A new president, Lyndon B. Johnson pledged his support for the new bill. As segregation tightened and racial oppression escalated across the US, some leaders of the African Americans community. This information was also taken from the book a witness to civil rights in the
During the Great Migration in 1910-1920 thousands of African American’s poured into the industrial cities to find work. After freedom summer was launched in Mississippi members of the congress in Washington D.C debated a new civil rights bill. After president Kennedy, who was assassinated in November 1963, failed to get any civil rights passed. A new president, Lyndon B. Johnson pledged his support for the new bill. As segregation tightened and racial oppression escalated across the US, some leaders of the African Americans community. This information was also taken from the book a witness to civil rights in the