Secret Service didn't like African Americans in 1963. Ask Agent Abraham Bolden.

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45. Excerpt from book review: 'You're the ''Jackie Robinson'' of the Secret Service.'

EXCERPT...

'You're a Nigger So Act Like One!'

When the Kennedy family vacationed at Hyannis Port, Mass., the agents all lived together in a house on the compound. As the agents were driving to the compound, Secret Service Agent Bob Foster saw a black woman in an Air Force uniform. "Thar goes a nigger," he shouted before realizing that Bolden was in the car. Foster covered his mouth. "I was there, but they did not see me," he said of the other agents.

Agent Harvey Henderson, however, did not shy away from calling Bolden vicious names. Henderson said, " 'I am going to tell you something, and I don't want you to ever forget it," Henderson said. "You were born a nigger, and when you die, you'll still be a nigger. You will always be nothing but a nigger. So act like one! '"

It was at the Kennedy compound that Bolden learned how much some of the agents hated the President, calling him a "nigger lover" who was pushing integration on the country. "They wanted Lyndon Johnson, who was Kennedy's vice president in the White House, because he was a Southerner.

It was a turbulent period in the nation's history. Blacks demonstrated to integrate stores, lunch counters and better-paying jobs. In return, they were being met by police with water hoses, billy clubs, snarling dogs and angry white crowds.

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