Civil Rights
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Non-violent activism and community organizing
Tags Share Remarks made at 2001 JFK profile in Courage Award ceremony, Boston, MA We wanted to test a Supreme Court ruling that banned segregation in an interstate travel facility. When the bus arrived in Rock Hill, South Carolina, I deboarded the bus and approached the white waiting room. We were being watched and someone…
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Young human rights defenders carry on John Lewis’ lasting legacy
Tags Share For myself, and for many members of the Kennedy family, John Lewis was a continual and steady presence in our lives. He was a father figure to us, he shared a special bond with my mother, Ethel, and he was a guiding force in helping Robert F Kennedy Human Rights become the organization…
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Good Trouble: What John Lewis’ life and legacy means for young leaders
Tags Share For myself, and for many, many members of the Kennedy family, John Lewis was a continual and steady presence in our lives. He was a father figure to us, he shared a special bond with my mother, Ethel, and he was a guiding force in helping Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights become the…
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Statement by Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights President Kerry Kennedy on the passing of Bill Russell
Tags Share A Hall of Famer who led the Boston Celtics to 11 NBA Championships. The first Black head coach in an American sports league. But Bill Russell was so much more than that. Russell, who died Sunday at age 88, was not only a basketball legend but a towering figure in the civil rights…
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Day Of Affirmation Address
Tags Share Mr. Chancellor, Mr. Vice Chancellor, Professor Robertson, Mr. Diamond, Mr. Daniel, Ladies and Gentlemen: I come here this evening because of my deep interest and affection for a land settled by the Dutch in the mid-seventeenth century, then taken over by the British, and at last independent; a land in which the native…
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On the Death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tags Share I have bad news for you, for all our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world, and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and killed tonight. Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice for his fellow human beings and he died because of…
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Televised Press Conference
Tags Share In the last five or six years, the white people have looked at the black people and said, “Look at all we have done. We passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. We passed the [Voting] Rights Act of 1965.” “A Negro has been appointed to the Supreme Court. A Negro has been…
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Reflections on the 1965 Watts Riots: State Convention, Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Tags Share I want to speak to you tonight about some of the events of the last week: about the dead and the orphans of the rioting in Los Angeles; about the sick and the distressed of all our urban ghettos; about the hatred and the fear and the brutality we saw in Los angeles;…
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Address at Law Day Ceremonies, University of Georgia
Tags Share For the first time since becoming attorney general, over three months ago, I am making something approaching a formal speech and I am proud that it is in Georgia…They have told me that when you speak in Georgia you should try to tie yourself to Georgia and the South, and even better, claim…
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Renewing our commitment to civil rights and voting rights
Tags Share By Kerry Kennedy and Martin Luther King III As violence and racism – evidenced by the bomb threats received last month at Historically Black Colleges and Universities across the country – continue unabated, our frustration and anger at the continued ugliness of the “other America” King described plaguing Black and Brown Americans has…
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Tour of the Mississippi Delta
Description Robert F. Kennedy during his inspection of the antipoverty program in Greenville, Mississippi, April 11, 1967. Date Copyright Tags Share Have any questions about licensing? Per the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code), for a library or archives to legally provide a reproduction of a copyrighted item, the reproduction is…
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Tour of the Mississippi Delta
Description Robert F. Kennedy visits the Freedom City cooperative farm near Greenville, Mississippi Date Copyright Tags Share Have any questions about licensing? Per the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code), for a library or archives to legally provide a reproduction of a copyrighted item, the reproduction is not to be “used…
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