Compare and contrast the presidential leadership of Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Joh

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Compare and contrast the presidential leadership of Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson in the field of civil rig

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Civil rights under these three presidents made landmark advances beginning with Eisenhower's decision to enforce the Supreme Court's decisions on integration in 1954 by calling up and using the National Guard to protect black students entering White schools. In the Korean Conflict Eisenhower integrated the Armed Forces, allowing coloured troops access to all ranks and grades, where previously they had been restricted to non-commissioned ranks or designated as stewards and kitchen help and segregated by unit with white officers. Although Truman had signed the executive order for integration of the Armed Forces in 1948 actual implementation lagged until Korea proved the fighting capability of black troops in 1950-51. The highest grades apart from the Tuskegee airmen,were warrant officers in supply positions and a few officers in all black regiments. Segregation of the Armed Forces officially ended in 1954 with the disbanding of the last segregated black regiment and integration of whites into the stewards units. Eisenhower, however, did not introduce or sign major civil rights legislation. In his short time in office Kennedy, with the moral support and prodding of his brother Bobby as Attorney General initiated much of the major civil rights legislation that his successor Johnson signed. Bobby also acted to see that Martin Luther King's march on the capitol went smoothly designating his assistant attorney general to work on the problems associated with the march exclusively for five weeks. Kennedy sent to Congress the most far reaching civil rights bill in the country's history in 1963. Following Kennedy's untimely assassination, Johnson is known as the civil rights president, signing more civil rights legislation than any other president. His major push though was the War on Poverty.