On this day in 1963, in the nationally televised Report to the American People on Civil Rights, President John F. Kennedy told the country that we face 'a moral crisis.”
The fact that the country’s first serious dialogue on civil rights in a century began around graduation time seems to us instructive.
” How could anybody fail to wonder what connection the performance had with the conditions causing street demonstrations in a dozen American cities or with the education of Vivian Malone and Jimmy Hood, who are, as President Kennedy said in his speech that evening, simply “two clearly qualified young Alabama residents who happened to have been born Negro”? We had to wonder about the relevance of President Kennedy’s need to federalize seventeen thousand National Guardsmen so that a general...
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