CIVIL RIGHTS

• “There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem. And we are met here tonight as Americans – not as Democrats or Republicans – we are met here as Americans to solve that problem.”

  –President Lyndon Baines Johnson, Special Address to Congress, March 15, 1965

   

  “But even if we pass this bill, the battle will not be over. What happened in Selma is part of a far larger movement, which reaches into every section and state of America. It is the effort of American Negroes to secure for themselves the full blessings of American life. Their cause must be our cause, too, because it’s not just Negroes, but really it’s all of us who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. And we shall overcome.”

   –President Lyndon Baines Johnson

  Multimedia Resources

  “The MLK and LBJ Tapes.” Weekend America. Desiree Cooper. National Public Radio. February 2, 2008. 
  –Nick Kotz, author of Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws that Changed America, analyzes archival tapes of conversations between President Johnson and Martin Luther King, Jr.

  “MLK, LBJ and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.” Bill Moyers Journal. Bill Moyers. Public Broadcasting Service. January 19, 2008.
  –Bill Moyers discusses his experience in the White House under President Johnson in passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the help of Martin Luther King, Jr.

  “The LBJ Library commemorates the 1965 marches for civil rights in Alabama.” Press Release.
  Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum. 2012. 
  –The LBJ Library commemorates the forty-seventh anniversary of the Alabama civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery with archival materials on the Civil Rights Act of 1965 and the Johnson Administration’s reaction to the marches.

  Books and Articles by Speakers

  Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1963-1965.
  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.

  Branch, Taylor. Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-1965.
  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.

  Branch, Taylor. At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965-1968.
  New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.

  Kotz, Nick. Judgment Days: Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws that Changed America.
  New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.

  Lewis, John. Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement.
  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.

  Rosenberg, Jonathan & Karabell, Zachary, eds. Kennedy, Johnson, and the Quest for Justice: The Civil Rights Tapes. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003.

  Rosenberg, Jonathan. How Far the Promised Land?: World Affairs and the American Civil Rights Movement from the First World War to Vietnam. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006.

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  Henry Cisneros, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Mayor of San Antonio; Executive Chairman, CityView15-Mar-2012 16:11, NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D3, 4.0, 112.0mm, 0.017 sec, ISO 2500

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  The Honorable John Lewis, United States House of Representatives; former Chairman, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (1963-1966)15-Mar-2012 16:07, NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D3, 4.0, 200.0mm, 0.017 sec, ISO 2500

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  The Honorable John Lewis (left) and Henry Cisneros (right)15-Mar-2012 16:05, NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D3, 4.5, 70.0mm, 0.017 sec, ISO 2500

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  The Honorable John Lewis (left) and Henry Cisneros (right)15-Mar-2012 16:05, NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D3, 4.0, 80.0mm, 0.017 sec, ISO 2500

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  Henry Cisneros, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Mayor of San Antonio; Executive Chairman, CityView15-Mar-2012 15:58, NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D3, 4.0, 116.0mm, 0.017 sec, ISO 2500

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  Jonathan Rosenberg, Professor of History, Hunter College15-Mar-2012 15:58, NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D3, 4.0, 122.0mm, 0.017 sec, ISO 2500

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  Patricia Albjerg Graham, Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Education Emerita, Harvard University15-Mar-2012 14:42, NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D3, 4.0, 200.0mm, 0.017 sec, ISO 2500

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  Joseph P. Viteritti, Thomas Hunter Professor of Public Policy, Hunter College15-Mar-2012 14:42, NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D3, 4.0, 170.0mm, 0.017 sec, ISO 2500

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  Jonathan Rosenberg, Professor of History, Hunter College15-Mar-2012 15:59, NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D3, 4.0, 112.0mm, 0.017 sec, ISO 2500

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  The Honorable John Lewis, United States House of Representatives; former Chairman, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (1963-1966)15-Mar-2012 15:58, NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D3, 4.0, 160.0mm, 0.017 sec, ISO 2500

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  The Honorable John Lewis, United States House of Representatives; former Chairman, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (1963-1966)15-Mar-2012 15:58, NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D3, 4.0, 160.0mm, 0.017 sec, ISO 2500

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  Henry Cisneros, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Mayor of San Antonio; Executive Chairman, CityView15-Mar-2012 16:12, NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D3, 4.0, 200.0mm, 0.02 sec, ISO 2500

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  Henry Cisneros, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Mayor of San Antonio; Executive Chairman, CityView15-Mar-2012 16:11, NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D3, 4.0, 200.0mm, 0.02 sec, ISO 2500

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