Attorney General Robert Kennedy speaks to civil rights marchers in front of the Justice Department, June 1963

ID: 4209 ~ Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Legal Campaigns - Department of Justice, Enforcing Civil Rights: 950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Legal Campaigns - Department of Justice, Enforcing Civil Rights: 950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Civil Rights Tour: Legal Campaigns - Department of Justice, Enforcing Civil Rights: 950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

By DC Historic Preservation Office

The US Department of Justice (DOJ), headquartered in a building designed for it as part of the Federal Triangle project in the 1930s, has been an essential tool in advancing African American civil…