President John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated at age 46. While not African American himself, JFK played a pivotal role in advancing civil rights during his presidency. He supported desegregation, protected the Freedom Riders, and in June 1963, gave a landmark speech calling civil rights a “moral issue,” laying groundwork for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was passed posthumously under President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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