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“Faith is taking the
first step even when
you dont see the
whole staircase.”
— Dr. M a r tin L u th e r K in g, Jr.
Robert K ennedy (center) with C esar and Helen Chavez.
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Sharing Martin Luther
King's Aspirations
continued
from H3
fice of Civil Rights also hired
its first African-American law-
yer and began to work cau-
tiously with leaders of the civil
rights m ovem ent. R obert
Kennedy saw voting as the
key to racial justice, and col-
matters of foreign and eco­
nomic policy.
After the assassination of
President Kennedy, Robert
Kennedy undertook a 1966
tour of South Africa in which
he championed the cause of
the two men was to undergo
great change over the years
that they would know each
other— from a position of mu-
tual suspicion to one of shared
aspirations.
For King, Robert
Kennedy initially rep­
resented the "softly
softly" approach that
in former years had
disabled the move­
ment of blacks against
oppression in the U.S.
For Robert Kennedy,
King initially repre­
sented what was then
considered the unre­
alistic militancy that
many in the white-lib­
eral cam p had re­
garded as the cause
of so little governmen­
tal progress.
In September 1962,
he sent U.S. Marshals -------- ---------------------------------------
and troops to Oxford, President John F. K ennedy (right) and his brothers, Attorney
Miss., to enforce a General Robert F. K ennedy (left) and Sen. Edward M.
federal court order K ennedy o u tside the Oval Office at the White H ouse on
admitting the first Af- Aug. 2 8 , 1 9 6 3 .
rican American stu­
dent, James Meredith, to the laborated with Presidents the anti-Apartheid movement.
University of Mississippi. Ri- Kennedy and Johnson to cre- The tour was greeted with
ots ensued during the period of ate the landmark Civil Rights international praise at a time
Meredith's admittance, which Act of 1964, which helped when few politicians dared to
resulted in hundreds of injuries bring an end to Jim Crow laws, entangle themselves in the
and two deaths.
He was to m aintain his po litics of South A frica.
Yet Kennedy remained ada- commitment to racial equal- Kennedy spoke out against
mant concerning the rights of ity into his own presidential the oppression of the native
black students to enjoy the campaign, extending his firm population and was welcomed
benefits of all levels of the sense of social justice to all by the black population as
educational system. The Of- areas of national life and into though a visiting head of state.
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I have a dream that one day every
valley shall be exalted, every hill and
mountain shall be made low, the rough
places will be made straight and the glory
o f the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh
shall see it together.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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