Patricia Sullivan on Her Reappraisal of RFK's Role in the Civil Rights Movement

<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in">&quot;Historians have generally discounted the role of the Kennedy administration, concluding that they moved only when forced to by the rush of events, and that somehow RFK experienced an epiphany after his brother was assassinated. This is clearly not the case.&quot;</p>

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