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Kennedy: The Reluctant Emancipator
Zinn, Howard | December 1, 1962 issue

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The article focuses on the unwillingness shown by the U.S. President John F. Kennedy to indulge in the movement for African-American rights. The dispatch of federal troops to Oxford, Mississippi, tends to obscure the true cautiousness of Kennedy in that movement. Also in Albany, Georgia, which twice this past year has been the scene of Afro-American demonstration, mass arrests and official violence, the federal government showed cautiousness to the point of timidity. However, the national government has an undeserved reputation, both among Southern opponents and Northern supporters, as a vigorous combatant for Afro-American rights.

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HUMAN rights; AFRICAN Americans; KENNEDY, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Political & social views; RACE discrimination; UNITED States -- Politics & government -- 1961-1963; UNITED States
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