Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker

Title:

Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker

Number of Pages:

30

Description:

Evaluation of LBJ's Senate record; political background prior to election as Mayor of Atlanta in 1962; work with President Kennedy and request to testify on behalf of Civil Rights Bill; civil rights programs in Atlanta; support of mayors of America in their meetings with LBJ and Hubert Humphrey; tiger cubs at Atlanta zoo named for President Johnson and Lady Bird; relations with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and Mrs. King; MLK's assassination and resulting racial problems in Atlanta; concerns and involvement in the race riots in Atlanta; recognition of Dr. King's Nobel Prize; lack of state-city relations in Georgia

Contributor:

Allen, Ivan

Collection:

LBJ Library Oral Histories

Collection Description:

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Series:

Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories

See Also:

See all online interviews with Ivan Allen

Subject:

Assassinations; King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968; Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978; Civil disorders

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

Possibly copyright restricted: see deed at end of transcript for details