... from two colleges walked through the streets of Orangeburg, South Carolina with placards that exhibited phrases like "We Want Liberty" and "Segregation is Dead." By late June some kind of public place in over one hundred and fifty different cities across America had been desegregated. John F. Kennedy was never able to ... gain enough support to pass a civil rights bill during his short time in office, but Lyndon Johnson drawing on the Kennedy legacy and the support of the ... had the American public responded with such fury. Over 15,000 thousand people marched in five different cities...

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