Justice Rising – Robert Kennedy’s America in Black and White
A leading civil rights historian places Robert Kennedy for the first time at the center of the movement for racial justice of the 1960sâand shows how many of todayâs issues can be traced back to that pivotal time. Bobby Kennedy was an unlikely civil rights hero. A cold warrior who once worked for Joe McCarthy, he grew up in a sheltered world where segregation was the norm. But when he became attorney general in 1961, he plunged headfirst into the politics of race. In this landmark reconsideration of his life and legacy, Patricia Sullivan reveals how he grasped the moment