LBJ Was No Friend of MLK
- Apr 12, 2023
- 1 min read
In The New York Times, Jeanne Theoharis and I wrote about the mistake many of us making in letting LBJ, the media and the general public off the hook for the way America treated Martin Luther King Jr.
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