When John F Kennedy became president in 1961 , he did what all other president was trying to do , make the country the best & made sure no problems happened while he was in that spot . A good way he tried doing that was by protecting and fighting for equal rights. During that time Martin Luther King Jr was also trying to accomplish the segregation in Atlanta, Georgia. John Kennedy phoned Coretta Scott King to express his concern while a call from Robert Kennedy to the judge helped secure her husband's safe release.me problem , in the process of that mr.king had gotten arrested while leading the protest .Since mr.king was in jail for also trying to let african americans be free & live as equal citizens ,jfk tried his best to also to …show more content…
As he kept trying the more they got impatient so they took matters to them selves “Freedom Riders” they were called . Freedom riders were arrested in North Carolina and beaten in South Carolina. In Alabama, a bus was burned and the riders attacked with baseball bats and tire irons. Mr.kennedy said “ that major civil rights legislation would be submitted to the Congress to guarantee equal access to public facilities, to end segregation in education, and to provide federal protection of the right to