The Institute of Community Service

In the 1950s and 1960 domestic disturbances between the races was growing in the United States, especially in the south. African Americans and others were protesting for the right to vote and their rights to full citizenship. They were not allowed to use public facilities like Libraries and were arrested when they tried to enter and enjoy what their taxes helped to support. Many were beaten with clubs, and attacked by police dogs as they demonstrated. It was a time when education of African Americans in the South started to gain national attention. During the years, John F Kennedy was President and Lyndon B. Johnson was the vice-president. The vice president saw poverty as a problem and the need to address it. On November 22, 1963 Lyndon Baine Johnson was sworn into office of President after President Kennedy was assassinated. President Johnson immediately began to focus on the domestic problems happening in the United States.