As Attorney General, Robert Kennedy had in many ways served as the administration’s spokesman on the law, and he was instrumental in persuading Senator Everett Dirksen, the minority leader, to support the bill, ensuring that civil rights supporters could overcome the Southern Democrats’ filibuster. It has been abridged by ReadWorks.

Robert Kennedy on Civil Rights, 1963 [Abridged] Overall, the total number of counties in which the Department has taken action, ranging from records inspection to law suits, has increased from 30 at the beginning of this Administration to 115 at present.

Robert Kennedy on civil rights, 1963 At the end of 1962, President John F. Kennedy asked his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, to compile a report on the Civil Rights enforcement activities of the Justice Department over the previous year. Kennedy had aspirations to be the Democrats next presidential candidate in the 1960 election. Robert F. Kennedy's Speech On the Mindless Menace of Violence at the City Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, www.jfklibrary.org. In the 1960's, there were many civil rights leaders who believed in equality for all people, of all colors, of all races. Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also called RFK, was a brother of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy.. His tenure is best known for its advocacy for the civil rights movement, the fight against organized crime and the Mafia, and involvement in U.S. foreign policy related to Cuba.. From the 1960 John F. Kennedy presidential campaign to the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and the Department of Justice worked tirelessly to change the climate of civil rights in the nation. April 5, 1968. The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Robert Kennedy and His Role in the Civil Rights Movement. In 1954 Kennedy joined the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations as chief counsel for the Democratic minority. Each citizen's right to vote is fundamental to all the other rights of citizenship and the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 make it the responsibility of the Department of Justice to protect that right. But the violence in Birmingham on May 3 of 1963 left him no choice but to alter his course. Robert Kennedy saw voting as the key to racial justice and collaborated with President Kennedy when he proposed the most far-reaching civil rights statute since Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was passed after President Kennedy was slain on November 22, 1963.

Robert Kennedy was against discrimination of blacks in the United States. History Now, the online journal of the Gilder Lehrman Institute, features essays by the nation's top historians and provides the latest in American history scholarship for teachers, students, and … The Most Trusted White Man in Black America. Kennedy's approach to civil rights was viewed, by civil rights leaders, as noncommittal. View this item in the collection.

His learning curve should inspire today’s leaders. Robert Kennedy January 24, 1963 Dear Mr. President: For those only interested in headlines, rioting and violence at the University of Mississippi overshadowed the History Dept. Attorney General Robert Kennedy turned his attention to voting rights, initiating five times the number of suits brought during the previous administration.