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How did John

f. Kennedy influence the civil rights movement ? Did he help or hinder it ?
a. he helped it by supporting King and introducing new civil rights legislation
b. he hindered it by doing nothing because he was afraid of losing unsympathetic voters in the 1964 election
c. he helped it by openly declaring all segregation policies as un-American

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One of the ways in which John F. Kennedy influenced the civil rights movement was that "c. he helped it by openly declaring all segregation policies as un-American," since he devised some of the first far-reaching Civil Rights legislation in the country's history.
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