Today's American Minute — Race Politics Jim Crow Black Codes
THE BIG SWITCH: Intimidation to Entitlement with LBJ's Great Society Welfare State - American Minute with Bill Federer
Race Politics Race Politics Jim Crow Black Codes
Democrat Senator Lyndon Johnson told Democrat Senator Richard Russell regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1957: "These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference."