President Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Civil Rights

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President Johnson meets with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Oval Office in 1963.

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During the upheaval of the civil rights era, the U.S. president and the nation's leading agitator had a little-known, behind-the-scenes relationship. Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. worked together through telephone calls and emissaries on a shared goal: Equal rights for black Americans. Michele Norris talks to Nick Kotz, author of Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Laws that Changed America.

Judgment Days

Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., And The Laws That Changed America

by Nick Kotz

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Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., And The Laws That Changed America

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