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CNN Series to Spotlight Robert F. Kennedy’s Relationship to Desegregation at UM
Watch video story. OXFORD, Miss. – Forty-six years ago Robert F. Kennedy gave the order for federal troops to facilitate integration at the University of Mississippi. Appropriately, the progress of race relations at the institution is being examined next week, as CNN remembers the 40th anniversary of the former U.S. attorney general’s assassination.