Just after delivering a speech lauding social justice and addressing racial inequality in the U.S., Robert F. Kennedy was shot on June 5, 1968. Kennedy had emerged as a critical white ally to Black Americans and anti-apartheid activists. His death was mourned not only in the U.S. but in Jamaica, South Africa, and Ghana, where many saw him as a global figure for racial reconciliation and progress.
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