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Robert Kennedy visits the Head Start Center

April 11, 1967

Robert Kennedy visits the Head Start Center, Richmond Grove, in Jackson, MS. Kennedy was in Mississippi for U.S. Senate Hearings on poverty.

April 11, 1967
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