A Time to Act

The time has come for this Nation to fulfill its promise. . . . John F. Kennedy was born one hundred years ago. As America's thirty-fifth president, he often took bold actions: establishing a peace corps and challenging Americans to land on the moon. But on civil rights, it took the urging and the example of other courageous people-leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Jackie Robinson, and even students and children-to help him realize that the time to act was NOW.