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JFK: The New Frontier

3) Civil Rights
Difficult to make progress due to opposition by southern Democrats
Appointed several black Americans to important jobs
Decided to introduce civil rights act after seeing events in Birmingham, Alabama
June 1963 his Civil Rights Bill failed

Summary:

Problems

Solutions

Barriers

Poverty

Minimum wage
Medical care for the aged bill

Failed to win over conservative southern Democrats and Republicans. Seen as creeping socialism.

Communism

Increased arms spending
Troops sent to Vietnam

Fears over his spending plans

Discrimination

Introduced Civil Rights bill

Seen as too radical