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Presidents on African American civil rights - Coggle Diagram
Presidents on African American civil rights
Lincoln
Emancipation Proclamation
Intention to preserve the Union
Civil War
'If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves I would'
Donald Trump
doesn't not support BLM
employment gains, but not a large scale
Claimed to have done the most for African Americans since Lincoln
Racist
Andrew Johnson and Ulysses Grant
Black Codes
1866 and 1875 Civil Rights Act
13th/14th/15th Amendment
Reconstruction (1865-77)
States rights
no real action taken
Rutherford Hayes
Jim Crow Laws
Woodrow Wilson
Red Summer (1919)
Re-emergence of KKK - Wilson supported and played 'Birth of a Nation'
Segregated army in WWI
Hebert Hoover
'sinister enemy of black race' - Du Bois
Southern strategy
JFK
didn't commit fully to civil rights
New Frontier
Warren Harding
Supported Jim Crow laws
Truman
spoke to AA activists and leaders
Desegregated army
Cold War
Supported AAs
addressed NAACP
FDR
Eleanor Roosevelt
New Deal
Barack Obama
1st POC President in US history
emergence of BLM
Equal employment opportunity commission
Lyndon B Johnson
Voting Rights Act
Civil rights Act
Fair Housing Act