Presidents - P

• Ulysses Grant worked closely with Congress and used federal troops to support legislation. This unity led to the remarkable changes during reconstruction.
• Truman appointed a committee on civil rights in 1946 and gave a special message to Congress in Feb 1948 requesting key elements of later civil rights legislation.
• Kennedy finally submitted a general civil rights bill to Congress in June 1963.
• Johnson backed US v. Mississippi in 1965 and took federal action to enforce it.
• Kennedy was limited by large numbers of republicans in congress who saw him as too pro-civil rights.