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Editors: Aaron Moatz and Daniel Shuster.
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Looking forward to your book on Doar, but it’s hard to paint the Johnson administration’s relationship to Mississippi civil rights as inspirational. Andrew Young:
![Y: Yes. I think we still say that you're not going to have any progress in this nation until you have political reform in the South. That was another thing that I didn't like, that I really held against Lyndon Johnson, more than Viet Nam. That was with all of the enthusiasm around Selma, of some 900 counties that qualified for voting rights supervision under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, by the time he went out of office fewer than a hundred--in fact it was just about 104, I think, by the time he left–had any kind of federal presence in them…one of the ways he got it passed and one of the deals that was made to get that Bill passed with Richard Russell and [James 0.] Eastland that they didn't have to worry that he was going to see how it was enforced, because Sunflower County, Eastland's County, was one of those counties with the most blatant denial of voting rights. It was way, way late before we could force them to have any kind of federal referee or voting supervision in Sunflower County because that was Eastland's County in Mississippi. The same thing was true here in Georgia. We didn't have any federal referees in Georgia, and I always thought that was Richard Russell's influence. We could get them in Alabama because Alabama was under Wallace and out with the Administration. We could also get them like in Alabama even, if there are nine counties in a congressional district, you might get a dozen federal referees in a dozen counties in Alabama, but you would only have three in the black belt counties. So they'd let you get the registration up to about a third and then you'd find it difficult to get federal referees after that. There'd always be some excuse. We felt like they were playing games with us, that they really did not want the reform of the South.
B: Now the "they" here, this must be--
Y: Lyndon Johnson and the Administration.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wixwolisky7xgqknixfvagij/bafkreiernzgusqb4fuld6llubuw5se3daie7cq75k63hh42h4hgfux7ahi@jpeg)
August 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Looking forward to your book on Doar, but it’s hard to paint the Johnson administration’s relationship to Mississippi civil rights as inspirational. Andrew Young:
It was just a sidenote 😀
February 3, 2025 at 2:33 AM
It was just a sidenote 😀
… the most important source of Horton’s image was thus television news.”
This was based on the number of times the PAC ad was ran and at what time, which was tiny. Proof of this is that the PAC ad was not even the example of racial imagery at the time given by Dems, because it was not well known.
This was based on the number of times the PAC ad was ran and at what time, which was tiny. Proof of this is that the PAC ad was not even the example of racial imagery at the time given by Dems, because it was not well known.
January 1, 2025 at 3:16 AM
… the most important source of Horton’s image was thus television news.”
This was based on the number of times the PAC ad was ran and at what time, which was tiny. Proof of this is that the PAC ad was not even the example of racial imagery at the time given by Dems, because it was not well known.
This was based on the number of times the PAC ad was ran and at what time, which was tiny. Proof of this is that the PAC ad was not even the example of racial imagery at the time given by Dems, because it was not well known.
Thank you for the thoughtful response.
1-2. The Bush campaign did disavow the PAC ad but the point made in part 1 still stands: “The exact influence of the Bush campaign on this PAC is debatable but the important factor is what was its true impact? …
1-2. The Bush campaign did disavow the PAC ad but the point made in part 1 still stands: “The exact influence of the Bush campaign on this PAC is debatable but the important factor is what was its true impact? …
January 1, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Thank you for the thoughtful response.
1-2. The Bush campaign did disavow the PAC ad but the point made in part 1 still stands: “The exact influence of the Bush campaign on this PAC is debatable but the important factor is what was its true impact? …
1-2. The Bush campaign did disavow the PAC ad but the point made in part 1 still stands: “The exact influence of the Bush campaign on this PAC is debatable but the important factor is what was its true impact? …
Yes, this ad (not from the Bush campaign) is addressed in detail in the previous post: readingthescore.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
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January 1, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Yes, this ad (not from the Bush campaign) is addressed in detail in the previous post: readingthescore.substack.com/p/the-truth-...