Why did John F.Kennedy consider civil rights a moral crisis for the nation?
A) He saw how racial tensions divided his own family.
B) He had personally witnessed the hardships of Jim Crow growing up.
C) He did not think racial equality in the United States possible without reparations for slavery.
D) He found racial discrimination incompatible with the United States' claim for leadership of the free world.
E) He considered civil rights an issue for women and gays as well as for African-Americans.
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