After weeks of hemming, hawing, consulting and promising, President Kennedy last week sent to Capitol Hill a package of civil rights legislation. He did so under the pressures of the Negro revolution that was bursting out all over. But once he moved, he moved hard.
Kennedy's civil rights proposals were the broadest presented by any 20th century President. And he completely committed himself to fight for them. Said he in his message: "The time has come for the Congress of the United States to join with the executive and judicial branches in...
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