Robert F. Kennedy speech, 1961.

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Robert F. Kennedy speech, 1961.

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The collection consists of one typed speech. This is the actual thirty-three page typed speech that Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy delivered on May 6, 1961 at the University of Georgia Law School in Athens. Given just after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, the speech celebrated "Law Day" and its role in the Civil Rights movement. This speech was important because it was the first time a member of the new Kennedy administration made a speech on Civil Rights in the South. Also, there had been a race riot on the University of Georgia campus on January 11, 1961. Attorney General Kennedy has edited words in blue pen in the manuscript, and added several in his own handwriting. This is a crucial speech given by the Kennedy administration's chief proponent of Civil Rights, and the document is in excellent condition with file holes at the top of every page.

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Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968

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Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also referred to by his initials RFK and occasionally by the nickname Bobby, was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968. He was the brother of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Senator Edward Moore Kennedy. Kennedy and his brothers were born into a wealthy,...