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Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights
By Levingston, Steve
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- 9780316267397 9780316267403
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- Hachette
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Reviewed on April 1, 2017 | Social Sciences
In June 1960, Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy (1917–63) met secretly with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–68), seeking his endorsement. King demurred. He was wary of Kennedy's ambition and equivocal record on civil rights. Conversely, the privileged future president failed to grasp the moral exigency of the civil rights question. Kennedy and King spent the early 1960s building pressure on each other—King leading m...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
