On June 11, 1963, President John F. Kennedy addressed the nation on the most pressing domestic issue of the day: the struggle to affirm civil rights for all Americans. His administration had ...

The violence in Birmingham proved that Kennedy's piecemeal approach to civil rights had failed. Martin Luther King. and cabinet meeting , August 5 , 1965. Courtesy: Library of Congress Elected ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, 1963 (UPI)-President Kennedy asked Congress Thursday for a series of new laws to protect Negroes from "the cruel disease of discrimination" in voting, schooling, and other ...