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ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
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INTERVIEW I
DATE:
August 14, 1986
INTERVIEWEE:
RUTH BOOKER
INTERVIEWER:
Christie L
- See all online interviews with Ruth Booker
- Biographical information; Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Martin; school in Johnson City; childhood memories of LBJ; Rebekah Johnson's desire for LBJ to attend college; George Johnson; Sam Johnson; Booker's mother loaning LBJ $100; living in Houston with LBJ
- Booker, Ruth, 1915-2001
- Oral history transcript, Ruth Booker, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1986, by Christie L. Bourgeois
- Ruth Booker
- words--of stimulating, creative
dissent in order to push toward his goals. For Dr. King, I can say only that he had, more
than any man perhaps since Booker T. Washington. But I'm not sure that Washington
belongs in this category.
I think King was unique
- that
was Booker T. Bonner, called by some [a] radical, carried out by the
police. We had this going on for at least two or three weeks. The
mayor couldn't take it. He finally went to the hospital, and we never
did really establish this human relations commission