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“Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy’s America in Black and White’’ by Patricia Sullivan. Harvard University Press. 515 pages. $39.95 Robert F. Kennedy “had a remarkable memory,” screenwriter Budd Schulberg recalled, “as well as a unique capacity for indignation.” Kennedy was not “the last of the great liberals,” Herbert Lopez, an African American activist acknowledged, but on racial issues he was “the last of the great believables.” As he accompanied Kennedy through Black and Latino neighborhoods in Los Angeles during the 1968 Democratic presidential primary, John Lewis concluded that the outpouring of emotion for the candidate “was love. It was adoration.  People, especially young people, just mobbed us, climbing over cars, trying to get close” to him.

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