his legacy helps passed in 64 and 65, the most expansive civil rights bills of our time. kennedy said elect me and i will hand this nation. he becomes president in 1961,a lot of southern committee and chairman and democrats and democrats hold on congress so he didn t do much because he was worried about the majority and many righteous white and black people began sending pens to the white house. why don t you sign that thing that says discrimination will end. if kennedy died for a purpose, he died for civil rights. the reason why he was so unpopular was when he went to