…lation was to secure the freedoms of Americans, infringed by racial discrimination and segregation. In a 1961 letter, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pressured President John F. Kennedy, calling for "a second Emancipation Proclamation to free all Negroes from second class citizenship." Along with other Black leaders, King helped to influence a dramatic shift in public policy. The wid…
Dr. Allison Wiltz
