What Role Did Nicholas Katzenbach Play In The Civil Rights Movement

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People think about the devotion and enthusiasm of these men and women of the federal government who factually at inordinate personal jeopardy, imposed the new reconciliation policies. One of these courageous communal servant is, Nicholas Katzenbach was a Deputy Attorney General under President Robert Kennedy, spent much of his governmental career at the most impulsive events of the 1960s. He helped to write the landmark civil rights and voting rights acts of the 1960s. He played a key role in the desegregation of southern universities and was present during the 1962 riots at the University of Mississippi following the enrollment of James Meredith. Nicholas Katzenbach was the man who faced down Governor George Wallace to enroll the first black students at the University of Alabama. He personally escorted James Hood and Vivian Malone into the campus of the University of Alabama. …show more content…

Today not many people know the name of Elbert Tuttle in America. In some aspects, he was a pre-dominant figure in the civil rights revolution of the 20th century as Thurgood Marshall and Martin Luther King (MLK). Tuttle was a chief judge who rose majestically to the legal challenge of his period. He was appointed to the Federal bench in 1954, a few months after the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in the public schools, hotels and transportation facilities. He joined the embattled United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which then covered six Deep South states. As Chief Judge during the riotous 1960's, he made sure that the promise of the Supreme Court's desegregation rulings became a

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