Episode 6: Patricia Sullivan, Justice Rising

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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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