John F. Kennedy and the Second Reconstruction

In his short but eventful presidency, John F. Kennedy became the key political figure behind a dramatic civil rights revolution: a Second Reconstruction, spurred by an ambitious drive by the federal government to remove racial barriers in political and economic life. 'John F. Kennedy and the Second Reconstruction, ' drawing extensively on the John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy papers, portrays the president's actions during every stage of the confrontation over civil rights in the South.