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LBJ and MLK: with eyes on the prize

Natural opposites, the two leaders compromised to get civil rights legislation passed

By Eric Arnesen
May 8, 2005

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Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws That Changed America (Full article: 929 words)

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