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Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also known as RFK, was an American politician and lawyer.He served as the 64th United States attorney general from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968, when he was running for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award was created in 1984 by the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial, now known as Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, to honor individuals around the world who have shown great courage and have made a significant contribution to human rights in their country.
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (formerly the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, or RFK Center) [1] is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit human rights advocacy organization. [ 2 ] [ better source needed ] It was named after United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, a few months after his assassination .
United States Senators Joseph S. Clark and Robert F. Kennedy toured the Mississippi Delta on April 10, 1967. At the behest of civil rights lawyer Marian Wright, Clark and Kennedy, together with two other senators, traveled to Mississippi to investigate reports of extreme poverty and starvation.
Coat of arms of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Notes On St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, 1961, a ceremony took place at the White House when the Ambassador of the Republic of Ireland, T. J. Kiernan, presented President John F. Kennedy with a hand-illuminated sheet of vellum. Signed by Gerard Slevin, Chief Herald of Ireland, the document announced that the ...
Senator Robert F. Kennedy, campaigning for president in 1968 "On the Mindless Menace of Violence" [a] is a speech given by United States Senator and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy. He delivered it in front of the City Club of Cleveland at the Sheraton-Cleveland Hotel on April 5, 1968, the day after the assassination of Martin Luther ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced his campaign for the 2024 United States presidential election on April 19, 2023. [10] An environmental lawyer, [ 11 ] writer, and member of the Kennedy family , he is known for advocating anti-vaccine misinformation [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] and a variety of public health conspiracy theories . [ 15 ]
The Baldwin–Kennedy meeting of May 24, 1963 was an attempt to improve race relations in the United States.Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy invited novelist James Baldwin, along with a large group of cultural leaders, to meet Kennedy in an apartment in New York City.