How LBJ got the Civil Rights Act passed
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The Civil Rights Act remains one of the great puzzles and achievements of American history. The achievement part is obvious. The puzzle part is two-fold. First: why did it take so long? It passed 101 years after President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. And second: how did it finally get passed?
To get the answers, let’s step back 50 years. It's hard for young people today to imagine, but back then there were restaurants and stores and cabs – mostly in the South – where black people were not served. There were separate water fountains for the two races and, as Rosa Parks made infamous, separate sections of buses, just to name a few. It was legal in 1964 to refuse to hire somebody because of the color of their skin or their gender. A year earlier, President John F. Kennedy had addressed the nation to urge action on civil rights.
But then Kennedy was assassinated. Surprisingly, his successor Lyndon Baines Johnson, a staunch Southerner, took up the cause, a cause that looked hopeless.
Why? Johnson biographer Robert Caro explains.
For more on the issue, tune into CNN's 'The Sixties' as it explores the civil rights movement in-depth, this Thursday at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
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Because he didn't have to deal with the GOPTards we have today.
@ Because:
Do you think that any of the Democrats we have today might possibly be racists?
Why did it take so long? Racism. Let's not kid ourselves, racism still exists today. It may not be on paper, but it exists in many forms. Take for example the recent racial profiling with "Stop and Frisk" in NY, the Trayvon Martin case in Florida etc.
Yep and even though most wont admit it you see it every day! Most times on this site!
L.B.J. would pick up his dog by the ears.
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I do not eat potato chips, and I don't eat chicken salad.
I certainly wouldn't offer them to anyone else.
I am taking cold pepperoni pizza.
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@ dazzle:
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Another fact that many of today's young people find difficult to accept is that most young people in the late 1950s worked diligently to eradicate racist thinking and laws.
Robert Caro is full of praise of Lyndon Baines Johnson. He is LBJ's hagiographer!
Looking back, LBJ wasn't too bad after all, compared to GWB.
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