Border Men: Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson, and Civil Rights

Since the end of Reconstruction, southern senators had successfully blocked numerous attempts to initiate a federal antilynching law, voting rights protections for African Americans, and legislation to abolish the poll tax. If southern politicians wanted to remain in power, they needed to feed the v...

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American history
Civil rights
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Civil rights movements
Congressional legislation
Economic depression
Eisenhower, Dwight D
Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890-1969)
Johnson, Lyndon B
Johnson, Lyndon Baines (1908-1973)
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Men
Political parties
Politics
Senators
Society
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Voting
Voting rights
White supremacy
World War II
World wars
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