In 1963 he convened a group of Black artists, entertainers, and activists to meet with Robert F. Kennedy, then the attorney general for his brother John, and although Robert Kennedy was taken aback by the anger of some of those present and stunned by what he initially perceived as their disloyalty to America, that shock later led him to radical reunderstanding: many of those present felt no loyalty to America because America had manifested no loyalty to them
