A 1962 poll revealed that the Negroes chose Dr. King as their favorite hero, followed closely by John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The following week, he sent his civil rights bill to Congress.This civil rights legislation was not simply, as many foreigners assumed, a new Declaration of Human Rights. In July 1963, US News and World Report headed one of its articles, "The Civil Rights Plan and Your Business." "Some hoped that the Kennedy Bill would be completely rewritten by Congress, and many felt that civil rights would be for Kennedy in 1964 what his Catholicism had been in 1960. On August 28 the Civil Rights march took place in the capitol to the strains of We Shall Overcome.