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Unfinished work of american democracy. the congress has to act. >> by the forces of our demands, our determination and our numbers, we shall splitter the segregated south into a thousand pieces and put them together in the image of god and democracy. >> we must say wake up, america, wake up, for we cannot stop and we will not and cannot be patient. >> bob dylan played his new song, only a pawn in their game, about the murder of metger evers. peter paul and mary all he formed. and then there was dr. martin luther king. spurred on by mahalia jackson who said, tell them about the dream. will be r...

Was basically kissing goodbye to the south. the solid south that had gotten democratic presidents from roosevelt on elected. despite ideological differences, they let jim crowe get away with it down there. they let the south get away with what they were doing. kennedy came along in a year before a presidential election where it was not going to be a cakewalk for him, he said okay, i'm going to do this thing and i'll pay the price. >> in 1960, as you well know, he got 70% of the african-american vote, jfk over richard nixon. and there is some anger in the black community that he wasn't doing en...