What actions did President Eisenhower take to address civil rights?

In the midst of this campaign, President Eisenhower proposed a civil rights bill designed to provide federal protection for African American voting rights; most African Americans in the Southern United States had been effectively disenfranchised by various state and local laws.

drowning in the surf at Iwo Jima, these African American soldiers narrowly missed death themselves. From left to right, back row, they are L. C. Carter, Jr., John Bonner, Jr., Charles R. Johnson. Standing, from left to right, are A. B. Randle, Homer H. Gaines, and Willie Tellie.

The Age of Eisenhower was a time of racial turmoil. During World War II, black Americans played a valiant role both in home-front factories and in battle-tested units on the front lines in the fight against Fascism. In the years after the war, black Americans demanded in return for their sacrifices that they be given equality before the law. Their heroic mobilization around that bold demand would shape American politics for decades.

Ike plays golf at White House

Ike enjoyed playing golf at Augusta National—and on the White House lawn

Dwight Eisenhower had little personal experience with or knowledge of black people. Ike grew up in rural Kansas with no black friends or teachers. He spent his career in the segregated U.S. Army; and his favorite place to unwind was Augusta National Golf Club, a bastion of white male privilege in the heart of the Old South.

During the 1952 election campaign, Eisenhower declared his “unalterable support of fairness and equality among all types of American citizens,” but quickly hedged: “I do not believe we can

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