The right to vote was passed and placed in the bill of rights (15th amendment) in 1870 part of the reconstruction era. So during 1960's during the civil rights movement the right to vote was not one of their goals because it was already in effect for African Americans to vote.
JFK was the first former scout to be President. Gerald Ford was the first and only Eagle Scout to be president. Bill Clinton and GW Bush were cub scouts. Since the inception of scouting in 1910 nearly all of the presidents have had some realtionship to scouting, often as adult leaders.
On this day in 1924, future President James Earl Carter is born in Plains, Georgia. Carter, who preferred to be called âJimmy,â was the son of a peanut farmer and was the first president to be born in a hospital. Carter was raised a devoted Southern Baptist and graduated from the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1946. He married Rosalynn Smith later that year.