he muscled it,,,WTF!!!!!I call bullshit,,,When Lyndon Johnson was in Congress in the 1950s he had three of his employees drive his car back from Washington to Austin at the end of every legislative session. That trip took his employees through the deep south. In Johnson’s telling, this went on for years without incident and he was unaware of any issues with this trip.
All three employees were black.
One year, he asked the three employees to take his dog, Beagle, back to Austin with him. According to Robert A. Caro in Master of the Senate, one employee hesitated, explaining:
“It’s tough enough to get all the way from Washington to Texas. We drive for hours and hours. We get hungry. But there’s no place on the road we can stop and go in and eat. We drive some more. It gets pretty hot. We want to wash up. But the only bathroom we’re allowed in is usually miles off the main highway. We keep goin’ ‘til night comes – ‘til we get so tired we can’t stay awake anymore. We’re ready to pull in. But it takes another hour or so to find a place to sleep.
“You see, what I’m saying is that a colored man’s got enough trouble getting across the South on his own, without having a dog along.”
In Johnson’s telling, hearing this story was jarring enough to permanently convince him of the necessity of protecting his employees – and every other African-American – from discrimination.
We, as a society, do not have to allow private companies to violate Americans’ civil rights.
Lyndon Johnson opposed every civil rights proposal considered in his first 20 years as lawmaker
Your link makes no mention of this story at all. I call bullshit on your call of bullshit.
youre right it doesnt,,,but what it does tell us is he never supported civil rights until he was POTUS
He had to represent his constituents
As President, he muscled Civil Rights and anti Poverty legislation through Congress
He could have easily blocked it if he opposed it
he didnt have to muscle dick because it was ready and waiting because he was stopping it for 20 yrs and then was for it,,,yeah fuck you and him
no wonder i hate fucking democrats
Actually he (and Humphrey and Mansfield) had to twist arms to get it done. Had a showdown with the Republican leader where he lectured him, "goddam it, your'e either the party of Lincoln or you're not".
The fact remains, your link has nothing to do with the car transport story.