It aimed to give African Americans the same citizenship rights that whites took for granted. It was a war waged on many fronts. In the 1960s it achieved impressive judicial and legislative victories against discrimination in public accommodations and voting.
The first President of the United States of America (note the capitals) was George Washington. Article II of the United States Constitution states that: The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.
From the Image Gallery... President Theodore Roosevelt was the nation's first conservationist President. He preached the need to preserve woodlands and mountain ranges as places of refuge and retreat and wanted the United States to change from exploiting natural resources to carefully managing them.e was the first President whose election was based more on the individual than the political party. When people voted Republican in 1904, they were generally casting their vote for Roosevelt the man instead of for him as the standard-bearer of the Republican Party.