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Ted and Bobby Kennedy

Edward "Ted" Moore Kennedy, Los Angeles, 1966
Robert F. Kennedy stands in between Senator Walter Mondale (left) and U.S. Marine corps officer C.D. Barron (right) at Markham Jr. High School, which Kennedy visited in the Watts-Willowbrook community to encourage underprivileged youth to remain in school, Los Angeles, 1964

Initially, the Kennedy family was not very supportive of the Civil Rights Movement. However, after witnessing the brutality of southern whites against members of the Civil Rights movement on national television they became more supportive.

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