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Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: LOUIS MARTIN INTERVIEWER: David G. McComb PLACE: Mr. Martin's offices in Chicago, Illinois Tape 1 of 1 Mc: First of all I'd like to know something about your background--where you were born, when, where did you get your education? M: I
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Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb
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.], the President wanted me to get some advisers in, and I remember I got Judge Leon Higginbotham from Philadelphia, wherever he was, Pennsylvania. And I got Louis Martin off of a golf course. Martin was black and when he drove to the White House gate--it was very

, memo from O'Brien to LBJ regarding the Democratic National Committee's efforts and COPE's voter registration program; Louis Martin distributing funds to a get-out-the-vote program aimed at minorities and secrecy surrounding this project; Louis Martin's

: Look at those in attendance: the treasurer, Bob Short; Louis Martin on black issues; George Mitchell representing the vice presidential candidate; Joe Napolitan, media; Fred Gates, fund-raising; Fred Harris, Max Kampelman, Jim Rowe, Bob McCandless; Al

Oral history transcript, Charles Evers, interview 1 (I), 4/3/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Martin. You know Louis Martin? F: Yes. E: He and Louis Martin, just sitting there, looking at us as though we were from somewhere from outer space. I remember very clearly he leaned over to Louis and evidently he must have said something like
Evers' friendship with LBJ as VP and President; LBJ as Chairman of Equal Employment Commission for JFK; LBJ and Louis Martin at meeting of black leaders; Voters' Rights Bill signed into law; Bobby Kennedy's run for presidency; Senator James Eastland

Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: LOUIS MARTIN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Martin's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: In your initial interview, you described a meeting that LBJ had with the black cabinet when he was vice president. I think
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Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
Louis Martin

Oral history transcript, M. J. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)

, and this is a copy of Louis Martin, who was the black head of minorities in the Democratic National Committee, you know, and Louis, of course--and there's Ralph Yarborough, and that's our mapping of strategy as such. H: Yes. I have seen this guy before on TV
; Anderson's correspondence with LBJ; Louis Martin's work in supporting LBJ; Anderson's work on the Hubert Humphrey 1968 presidential campaign; the relationship between LBJ and Humphrey; LBJ's difficult personality; UPO funding; difficulty getting young people

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ALEXANDER -- I -- 14 something that we did. Others have gained credit for it, but basically it's myself and, I guess, Sherwin Markman and Willie [Louis] Martin. We went out, some White House staff did, and went to black

who's looking, and do you start getting fed about people? Because obviously you1re not g o i n g to know everyone in Seattle that ought to be contacted. A: That's true. The word does get out, and I used the good offices of Louis Martin, who

Oral history transcript, Berl Bernhard, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to do unsuccessfully, or go along with? B: Have you talked to Louis Martin? G: I'm going to see him-- B: You've got to see Louis. G: --Tuesday. B: Okay. Do you know Louis? G: Yes. B: Louis and I worked very closely together. Louis

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

likely that he would say, "I was invited and I'm here, and I'm not going to be given this kind of second-class treatment," and so on. He was there with Roy Innis. That marvelous faithful about whom enough can never be said, Louis Martin, volunteered to go
White House reaction to Watts riots; LBJ’s speech to the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission regarding rioters; Clark group’s report on Watts; LBJ-HHH relationship; Roger Wilkins; death of MLK; LBJ’s feelings about MLK; Louis Martin; Detroit

in the day with Louis Martin and Lee White, and I meet at the top of the day with Bill Taylor from the Commission on Civil Rights. So I may have been testing the water off of the President's reactions. And I had met the day before, the fifteenth, with Roger

Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and relations have been, particularly with the newer generation? \if: I think that the major link and the person ,.,rho has bridged this gap, if there is one, has been Louis Martin on the Democratic National Committee. He has been the major link

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

looking all along for new legislation and new techniques and we came right into Title II, the public accommodations section, and I would say even at that first meting we decided after a statement by Louis Martin that was terribly forceful that public

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 5 (V), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of a But the one thing that really was the purpose of sending the raessage was the advice of Louis Martin. F: Yes. W: You must talk to Louis. Do you know Louis Hartin? Louis is truly a great social scientist. Louis said, "There's one damned problem

, particularly Louis Martin, people like that, which is a general feel-out, as they do in these situations. B: There has been some talk that perhaps Mrs. Johnson was your strongest recommender. W: I would say this, that I got to know Mrs. Johnson better than

Oral history transcript, Harold Fleming, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1986, by Michael Gillette (Item)

. Perhaps Louis Martin and Carl [Stokes] may have gotten into that, it certainly is to--when blacks were involved. But it wasn't just blacks. There were judgments about who might have too much leftist baggage in the background, that kind of stuff, a little

to do it at the right time and in the right way. And then I talked to other people, Louis Martin, I'm sure, and Lee White, and tried to get Lee White to be the good guy since obviously I was the bastard in Weaver's mind by this time. And we needed a good

Oral history transcript, James M. Quigley, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

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