Quest for freedom and equality
Very few of the presidents of the United States have been responsive to the African American quest for freedom and equality. Some of them in fact, have been rather hostile. An example would be when President Andrew Jackson vetoed civil rights legislation and the Freedmen’s Bureau Act. When Congress overrode his veto, he still refused to carry out the law and this lead to his impeachment. Most of the presidents however, have been largely silent on the issues of race. President Roosevelt spent 13 years in office without taking a stand on racial discrimination. Despite declaring that racism was morally wrong, President Kennedy too was reluctant to take a risk by supporting civil rights legislation. Even when he issued Executive Order 11063, banning discrimination in federally assisted housing, he did so reluctantly.The Supreme Court has historically been against the African American quest for freedom and equality. They were so much against African American rights that in the case of Dredd Scott v. Sanford, Chief Justice Taney went on record to echo the sentiments of the entire court system, stating that the rights of African Americans were not universal but rather existed only as
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