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Topic Started: May 25 2009, 08:41 PM (83 Views)
J.P.M
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President Eisenhower doesn't use force in segregating southern schools in the south. With this, segregation in schools continues unchecked as blacks try to en-role are turned away, forced away or in cases beaten or killed. The south marches on until the election of Senator John F. Kennedy of MA in one of the closer presidential elections this one being 1960. This brings the south up in arms as Kennedy supports civil rights and using force to desegregate schools in the South. Southern Governors bemoan it and say that Kennedy attacks their "Constitutional Rights".

With this at hand, southern states begin to rumble, some Governors even whispering about seccession. The Inauguration of 1961 comes as Kennedy is sworn in as President, in his inaugural address calling for a "New Order" in the United States and rights for every citizen of the nation. This lights the Southern Powderkeg as South Carolina and Alabama legislatures decry Kennedy a radical liberal bent on the destruction of the South, they then put forth seccession.

Kennedy calls for the votes to stop but Alabama becomes the first state to seccede from the United States, followed by South Carolina and Mississippi. These three states would be followed by several other states. Blacks in the newly secceded southern states begin to riot as Governors of the secceded states call out the state guard and militia's to quell the riots. The nation now hangs in the balance as the nation is fracturing as a new American Civil War ignites....
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