Afterward, he urged his brother to embrace civil rights as a moral issue. Though the bulk of President Kennedy's advisors counseled him against making his speech on June 11, claiming it was too ...

The Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965, both under the 36 th presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, but Kennedy laid the groundwork.

Over 230,000 pages of classified documents tied to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination have been released under Executive Order 14176 by the Trump administration. These documents, accessible ...