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How did John F Kennedy Impact the civil rights movement?

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he was close to Martin Luther King
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He generally supported Civil Rights as he was close with MLK and his New Frontier programs called for some civil rights reforms. But overall his presidency was too short for him to make an impact. The person who did the most was LBJ, the next president after him.

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