Discover Our Collections


  • Tag > Digital item (remove)
  • Type > Text (remove)
  • Subject > Civil rights (remove)
  • Collection > LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)

6 results

  • in most of that activity. I was a I was heavily Close to Dr. Martin Luther King --closely associated with all the national civil rights leaders. B: What was your opinion of the Justice Department's, and the Kennedy Administration generally, handling
  • ar.r educa tion peop1!3 cC:.-.:.cat-:. o:i associ? .tions.; ."."'eve n to the point the unfr-ie~~liY-1 ~ss .of th~ t1ro, blocke d p;?.ssage of th~t and the this rift, or n~edcd. legis lation . Do 7cu fc;el t.ha.t you brougJ .t these assoc
  • McCormack' s office that he didn't realize that the people were being prbse-· cuted, although it had been a matter of conside rable publici ty in all of the newspap ers for some weeks, maybe even months at that time; and that he didn't want them prosecu ted
  • : Plus newspape rme n. P: --and news p apermen~ t han anybody in Texas. as many as anybody, and maybe more . At that time I knew fully I had been to all kinds of conventions and through all sorts of election s, and I had made some dear friends
  • !.> and who was my very c1oses t associate-­ I had not known him before I went to the White House, but we had come to be very congenial and friendly during the time I was there, so being with him accentuated it. This was really a traumatic experience
  • to the UN relating to Texas; story of Mrs. Hays being robbed; handling church-state relations for LBJ; selected associate director of the Community Relations Service; Governor Faubus; regrets the Southern Manifesto; Faubus helps unseat Hays in the election