“We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It is as old as the scriptures and is as clear as the American Constitution.”
John F. Kennedy
Civil Rights Address (Primary source)
On the evening of June 11, 1963, President John F. Kennedy delivered a televised and radio address to the nation on civil rights, broadcast from the Oval Office hours after Alabama Governor George Wallace yielded to federalised National Guardsmen and permitted two Black students to enroll at the University of Alabama.
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