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In this month's episode of the Book Club, Jeffrey Sachs and Professor Patricia Sullivan, a leading civil rights historian, place Robert Kennedy at the center of the movement for racial justice of the 1960s—and show how many of today’s issues can be traced back to that pivotal time in US history.

Prof. Sullivan is the author of this month's featured book Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy’s America in Black and White.

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Footnotes:

• Biography of Robert F. Kennedy
• American Civil War
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
• Brown vs. Board of Education
• Jim Crow Laws
• Biography of John F. Kennedy
• World War II
• New Deal
• Biography of Ralph Bunche
• Biography of Alexander Bickel
• Biography of Burke Marshall
• Biography of John Doar
• Biography of John M. Patterson
• John F. Kennedy’s televised address to the Nation on Civil Rights on 11 June 1963
• Biography of James Meredith
• Biography of Harry Belafonte
• Biography of James Baldwin
• Biography of Martin Luther King Jr.
• Biography of Lyndon B. Johnson
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Watts Riots
• Vietnam War
• Martin Luther King Jr. speech at New York’s Riverside Church on 4 Ap

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