The late Benny Martinez, a Mexican American civil rights leader who helped organize a historic meeting between LULAC and ...
the “colored masses” might embrace “the mindless radicalism of the Negro militants,” as Schlesinger described the president’s logic. Kennedy’s assassination in November 1963 meant the civil rights ...
President Kennedy also took action toward the cause of equal rights calling for new civil rights legislation. This eventually ...
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former President John F. Kennedy, was shot and killed, left five others wounded and rattled a nation that had already been shaken from multiple assassinations; civil rights leader Martin Luther ...