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Robert Kennedy on civil rights, 1963
US Attorney General, Robert Kennedy responds to criticisms that legal and constitutional complexities are slowing the progress of the civil rights movement.
Martin Luther King had criticised the US government for not taking legal action to force individual states to implement measures to outlaw discrimination.
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