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It is true that the message of acceptance for blacks in America was President John F.Kennedy's finest hour. Some 248 years (1865) ago the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery in the United States was ratified. In 1965, the Civil Rights Movement with President Lydon B. Johnson's signature made voting a right and not a privilege for blacks in former slave states and he signed the public accommodation law that meant that blacks could eat, ride and sleep in places along with anyone else who could pay for it. That I remember was a very happy day for my parents. The law was finally on their side and going to be upheld.
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