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Second Emancipation Proclamation : ウィキペディア英語版 | Second Emancipation Proclamation The Second Emancipation Proclamation is the term applied to an envisioned Executive Order that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other leaders of the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–68) enjoined President John F. Kennedy to issue. As the Emancipation Proclamation was an Executive Order issued by President Abraham Lincoln to free all slaves being held in states at war with the Union, the envisioned "Second Emancipation Proclamation" was to use the powers of the Executive office to strike a severe blow to segregation. ==Kennedy and Politics== Professor David W. Blight and Allison Scharfstein writing in the ''New York Times'' point out that "During the 1960 presidential debates, Kennedy had suggested that he would address equality of opportunity by the 'stroke of the president’s pen.'"〔 Although President Kennedy opposed segregation and had shown support for the civil rights of African Americans, he originally believed in a more measured approach to legislation given the political realities he faced in Congress. The white Southern Democrats in Congress were a powerful voting block and many of Congressional committees were chaired by Southern segregationists.〔 Noting this lack of progress, King told his legal adviser Clarence B. Jones "What we need to do is get Kennedy to issue a second Emancipation Proclamation on the anniversary of the first one." On June 6, 1961, King announced this idea during a New York news conference, saying "Just as Abraham Lincoln had the vision to see almost 100 years ago that this nation could not exist half-free, the present administration must have the insight to see that today the nation cannot exist half-segregated and half-free."〔 Jones and a team of legal scholars (which would include members of the Gandhi Society for Human Rights) began to prepare the proposal, while King continued to publicize the idea.〔
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