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Within the Limits of Our Authority: The Civil Rights Education of President John F. Kennedy, 19611963
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by Maldava E. Glyne
Sales Rank: 1883195
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Cover Type: Paperback with 152 pages
Published by: iUniverse, Inc. August 18, 2006
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0595392008
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0595392001
Book Dimensions:
8.8 x 6 x 0.5 inches
Weighs: 8 ounces
Product Description
Everyone knew that President Kennedy would wax poetically at the appropriate juncture in late September about Abraham Lincoln and the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Few could have guessed, however, the enormous political impact that resulted from the President’s remarks. Recording his words for usage at the Lincoln Memorial on Sept. 22, the President wonderfully captured Lincoln’s signing as “one of the most solemn moments in American history.” The meaning could not be clearer; the Emancipation Proclamation symbolizes not an end but a new beginning—even if the populace did not anxiously await details of the “somber story” (“the struggle to convert freedom rhetoric to reality”). Acknowledging the past as “bitter years of humiliation and deprivation” for African-Americans, President Kennedy started to find his voice on civil rights and began to move in a different direction. In his next two paragraphs, the President appropriately expressed his admiration for what one scholar later termed “a grace undeserved” for how “the Negro retained his loyalty to the United States and to democratic institutions, displayed by his valorous conduct in two world wars,” and how “the Negro never stopped working for his own salvation.”
About The Author
Maldava E. Glyne holds an honors degree in history from an American university and previously published Addy and Mel: A Story of the American Presidency, a novel, under the name M. E. Gilverstein
Reader Reviews
Yes, indeed, it is time to set things right. So many want to paint one-dimensional portraits of leaders in difficult times. This is not only wrong: it is not historiography. Jack Kennedy was indeed learning from experience - how could he not? The experiences were searing. But he could have let them slide and he chose to risk his re-election, something he valued enough for which to risk his life in a dangerous place. A very dangerous place at that time. Johnson was no civil rights saint, as even King soon discovered - and he didn't know the half of the sort of things LBJ said in private conversations! Att. Gen. Robert Kennedy asked for more FBI coverage of Freedom Summer, and in the midst of sending federales to NYC for some civil disturbance in mostly black areas, LBJ blatantly told the dead President's brother that he was simply not going to "babysit" the participants of Freedom Summer. This in the midst of the crisis of the three missing young people! Two of 'em white! It was a despicable bit of conversation and revealed his "we SHALL overcome" bluster as . . . well, this is a family web site. It was Jack's legislation; he wanted and got the credit for getting it through. Never mind that he was elected in large part due to Jack Kennedy's martydom, which also helped the legislation. It was the tragedy of the Selma marches that pushed voting rights: long after the Kennedys had fervently argued with civil rights leaders that they bellieved that voting rights ought to have been first on the agenda. Who can say? Surely, there were no "civil rights" to buy a hamburger for the many poor whites of the deep south, and poverty itself needed immediate attention (check out Kennedy's first two executive orders: I won't tell you; you'll have to look them up). Yet LBJ was at first dragged into placing massive numbers of ground troops in Vietnam. Tricked, even! And certainly the object lesson of following a murdered President whose murderer was never tried or convicted had to be just a little bit scary. He kept asking for opinions. Asking and asking, and asking. Then his hand was forced by "an incident." Read about that one. It must have been quite painful, later, after so much soul searching to hear the chants of "hey, hey LBJ, {disturbing rhyme found elsewhere}." And then he finally resigned. He was in deep waters now, and he wasn't swimming all that well. If Kennedy had managed to charm the public into re-electing the glamorous first lady (let's face it!), who knows how far his "education" might have gone. Younger brother Bobby didn't "change"; he simply grew. Jack never had that chance. But with the American University "Peace Speech" (truly remarkable: everyone should read it to understand the enmity of certain factions in the nation prior to his murder), the brazen civil rights speech, and Bobby's ABSOLUTE opposition to a ground troop surge, there can be little doubt that history would have been different and lives changed in fundamental ways. It is time to set the whole matter right: get the facts straight . . . they are now available.
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