![]() ![]() ![]() Kennedy proposed sweeping civil-rights legislation, but he would not live to see its passage both he and civil-rights activist Medgar Evers would be assassinated in 1963. The year was 1963, and in America the civil-rights movement continued to gain momentum in the face of turmoil and violence, culminating in Martin Luther King‘s "I Have A Dream" speech, even as ugly rhetoric prevailed from foes such as Alabama governor George Wallace, who proclaimed in his inaugural address, "Segregation now,segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever." In South Vietnam Buddhist monks burned themselves to death in protest against the country‘s regime, and the Cold War continued apace, even though the United States and the Soviet Union signed a treaty limiting nuclear testing and established a communications hotline between the two nations.
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