Black vote vaulted "first" JFK.(Your Life)(election of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, 1960)

Publication: USA Today (Magazine)

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With Pres. George W. Bush and Sen. John F. Kerry both after the African-American vote, a recently unearthed recording reveals how Martin Luther King, Jr., regarded blacks' influence in an earlier presidential contest. According to a transcript by the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project at Stanford (Calif.) University, King maintained that black voters...

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