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How did kennedy stop the violence against the freedom riders in mississippi

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Made a deal with senator James Eastland if Eastland influenced Mississippi to stop violence he wouldn't object the police to arrest the freedom riders.
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In order to do so he sent out Byron White and 500 federal marshals from the North to protect them.


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