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.
A new dawn of American leadership is at hand,Obama told the enraptured crowd. Obama is not the first Columbia affiliate to be elected president Dwight Eisenhower served as president of the university and Franklin Roosevelt attended the law school but he is the first graduate of Columbia College.