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 ...

But liberalism had its limits when it came to integration and civil rights. Over the course of 1963, particularly following JFK’s call for civil rights legislation in mid-June, a growing number came ...