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Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 4 (IV), 4/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ; [Bernard] Lafayette did; [Anthony] Henry did; [Ralph] Abernathy did; Jesse Jackson did; [Reies Lopez] Tijerina did; all of them. They had no-- F: Eleven quarterbacks? 11 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon
  • Leadership Conference's (SCLC) interaction with the press; communication problems within SCLC; racial tension at Resurrection City; lack of coordination and organizational problems at the demonstration; Ralph Abernathy; the terms of the Resurrection City
Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joe Robertson, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh Robertson -- I -- 3 [Ralph] Abernathy was leading the multitude that day. He smiled and said, "Well, we're here to eat in your cafeteria again." I said in effect, "The hell you say. You won't eat in our cafeteria until you pay for what
  • Incidents involving civil rights leaders Jesse Jackson, Ralph Abernathy, Andy Young, and Marian Edelman; the Agricultural Stabilization Conservation Service (ASCS); Jamie Whitten; Rural Areas Development Service (RADS); Secretary of Agriculture
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 5 (V), 5/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Castro -- V -- 3 Day event. I honestly don't know what happened, but I gather some kind of a breach developed between [Ralph] Abernathy and Rustin
  • Solidarity Day, June 19, 1968; Solidarity Day chairmen Bayard Rustin and, later, Sterling Tucker; Dean Rusk's son, David Rusk, and his work on Solidarity Day; estimating the number of people expected for the Solidarity Day event; speeches by Ralph
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • rather than making decisions, except in the more crucial-- C: That's right, that's right. Decisions like when we finally felt that we ought to work out an accommodation with [Ralph] Abernathy and get him out of there, and he wanted to get out
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 4 (IV), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • - to twenty-billion-dollar program. It's a big program. G: Let me ask you, then, to recount your discussions with Ralph Abernathy and the Poor People's Campaign when they came in in 1968. They occupied offices, didn't they, at Agriculture? F
Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 2 (II), 11/25/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • prior to the time that he left. G: Did you have any meetings or conferences with Reverend [Ralph] Abernathy during the Poor People's Campaign? H: I had two meetings scheduled with Reverend Abernathy during the campaign; both of these were held
Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Martin King, Ralph Abernathy, Whitney Young, Joseph Rauh. I can think of about fifty or sixty outstanding, nationally known civil rights leaders who were here, Roy Wilkins and all that gang. But the problem with the police came about after we had had
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 29 (XXIX), 11/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • outside. We had security at the doors and suddenly the doors--they were large, double doors--burst open and the security guards were pushed aside. In came this group of a hundred or so people led by Ralph Abernathy and the largest woman I've ever seen
  • ; telethon producer David Wolper; Democratic National Convention costs and the length of the convention; the National Welfare Rights Organization and Ralph Abernathy's demands; 1968 campaign debt; the Democratic Policy Council; the importance of Southern
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • --well, maybe that's the wrong word--of defaming information about King.It was said that the FBI even had a tape that came from bugging a hotel room in which King and [Ralph] Abernathy and a number of others were engaged in all kinds of circus sexual acts
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 2 (II), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • never talked about it in your presence? 10 Okay. Remember they had the Poor People's Campaign and Resurrection City that spring and summer. There was a note in the press that Ralph Abernathy wanted to meet with you. why? Do you recall that? Do you
Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 2 (II), 5/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] on this question. We did finally discuss with the White House, Joe Califano and Bill Moyers, some expansion in the Food Stamp Program. I negotiated some of the elements of this with Ralph Abernathy at the other end of my table, Marian Wright sitting next to him
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 4 (IV), 1/28/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Well, again, Johnson was worried. This was the tent city and all of that? G: Yes. J: Yes. Of [Ralph] Abernathy's. I think Johnson was worried that it could lead to more civil disorder and that all of that detracted from what he was trying to do
Oral history transcript, Owen Donley, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • refresh my memory. What year was the [poor people’s march]? G: 1968. D: 1968. And that was Resurrection City and all that business. That had a great impact. That had a great impact. Ralph Abernathy had seen Senator McGovern a number of times during
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • publicity because it had drawn the support and attention of Dr. Martin Luther King and his associate, Dr. [Ralph] Abernathy. It had ceased to be strictly a labor dispute, but emerged as a matter of the dignity of minority people in Memphis. i~volved
Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Andrew Young, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . But that's about all that happened. The rumors, though, continued. They kind of slowed down, but I think--I'm not exactly sure why, but it may have been because we didn't talk about it, about that at all. Walter Fauntroy and Ralph Abernathy and I asked
Oral history transcript, Clarence Mitchell, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • all, the news media· .can carry that ·message to more people ove~- · ·.. night than the mayor could carry· to them in .ages. B: Ralph McGill is usually. given a great deal of the credit for this. « . J: We11 , I don't think there's any question
  • Meeting LBJ in 1960; civil rights demonstrations in Atlanta and subsequent federal laws to override states’ discriminatory laws; Civil Rights Act of 1964; opinions of integration among Atlanta leadership; Ralph McGill; Martin Luther King, Sr. and Jr
Oral history transcript, Walter Washington and Bennetta Washington, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 3 (III), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of problems. I But I sat in a number of meetings with the President with King alone, or with Mrs. King or with Abernathy, or Mrs. Johnson. I think there was a pretty good relationship that existed between President Johnson and King. King was always
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 25 (XXV), 8/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh ROBERTS -- I -- 2 F: You hadn't made any of the trips? R: No. But I should add that before the Texas trip we were well aware of the feud between [Ralph] Yarborough and [John] Connally, and everybody was looking for those angles
Oral history transcript, Sterling Tucker, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Conference1 T: I hope someday that one of them will write about it because I'm not really sure. I'm not really sure, and yet I was very close to it. In meetings with mainly Rev. Abernathy and Bayard Rustin--I was in telephone communication with them
Oral history transcript, David S. Black, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Horace D. Godfrey, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • side, and some of their key advisers, Congressman Graham Purcell in the grain area, Congressman Paul Jones and Congressman Tom Abernathy in the cotton area. They were the key men that would be on the majority side on this. And so you worked with them
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)