[cwb]

Some great reference material, here. I look back at LBJ's embrace of the 1964 Civil Rights Act...and realize what a fraud he and the Democrats pulled on the American people. It was only a few years early, that he, as Senate Majority Leader, gutted most of Ike's Civil Rights Acts of '57 and '60. For all the talk of helping po' black folk, it was LBJ who not only supported a poll tax to keep blacks from voting, he was also against federal lynching laws. At least he (and the NAACP) had the courage to recognize that it was Republican, Everett Dirkson, who deserved the credit for tirelessly working to get the 1964 CRA passed.

What most people don't realize...but was even acknowledged by Congressional Quarterly, was that Eisenhower was responsible for the greatest advances in Civil Rights in the past 80 years. As has even been noted here, most of what was in the 1964 Act, was what Ike and Herbert Brownell (Ike's AG) proposed in their original drafts of the '57 and '60 Civil Rights Acts, but were watered down by Democrats such as LBJ. These facts need to get out.

[Squawk 8888]

Eisenhower was responsible for the greatest advances in Civil Rights in the past 80 years

I wasn't aware of that, but given what he saw and accomplished in Europe I'm not surprised. I'd be willing to bet that witnessing the end result of the Nazi racial laws influenced his thinking.

[huldah1776]

Billboards with a few historical facts changed weekly along the US major highways.