Downloads
Resources for you. Download a few.
Freedom Ride
Read a letter to JFK from Civil Rights leader James Farmer: Dear JFK, Freedom Riders will ride public busses into the segregated deep South.
Courtesy John F. Kennedy Library Foundation
A Moral Issue
Listen to JFK take a stand for Civil Rights. This is the full version of his TV and radio address, 6/11/63.
Courtesy John F. Kennedy Library Foundation
Church Bombing
Read a 9/15/63 telegram from MLK to JFK. The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL, has been bombed. 4 girls were killed.
Courtesy John F. Kennedy Library Foundation
Mississippi Mayhem
Watch a Newsreel about James Meredith trying to become the first black student at Ole Miss. Violence erupts, 9/30/62.
Courtesy John F. Kennedy Library Foundation
Leaders United
JFK and Civil Rights leaders: JFK supported the 8/28/63 March on Washington, in which MLK will say, “I have a Dream.”
Courtesy John F. Kennedy Library Foundation
Civil Rights Passed!
Who voted for and against the ‘64 Civil Rights bill? Check out the House of Reps roll call. The bill was backed by JFK, but passed after his presidency.
Courtesy John F. Kennedy Library Foundation
