The American Jewish Congress charged today that gradualism as a means of achieving racial equality had proved “a folly and a failure.”
The Jewish Congress called on President Kennedy to move “boldly” in meeting what it called “the crucial domestic issue of our time–closing the civil rights gap between what the Constitution promises and the way millions of Americans live.”
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