 He continued to work on these social justice issues in his bid for the presidency in 1968.On the night of Governor Wallace's capitulation to African-American enrollment at the University of Alabama, President Kennedy gave an address to the nation, which marked the changing tide, an address that was to become a landmark for the ensuing change in political policy as to civil rights.In 1966, Robert Kennedy visited South Africa and voiced his objections to apartheid, the first time a major US politician had done so