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struck down onerous forms of racial discrimination. .ALTHOUGH HE WAS the majority leader in 1957. I believe Senator Johnson was still that kind of circled official when Congress began its work that year. It is my opinion that the civil rights bill would not have come to the floor in 1957 if Senator William F. Knowland (R.-Calif.) had not made a firm decision to fight for it It will be remembered that the only certain way to get a civil rights hi 1 to the Senate floor in 1957 was to by. pass the judiciary^ committee who-c chairman. James 0. Eastland of Mississippi, had boasted that he had a special pants pocket for such proposals.Senator Knowland led a successful bi-partisan drive to by • pass the Kasl-land pants pocket. Senator Johnson was the leader of an unsuccessful hi-partisan effort to let (hr .Missisippian have the bill. Al that point it was ch'.ir to all that there would be some kind of civil rights lull passed. Senator John-... son then led the forces that wintcd » si- bill palatable to weakest supporters of ed civil rights outside the South 3nd not too galling to the moderates in the South.i * * •IN THIS course of action Senator Johnson had a notable assist from
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Baltimore Afro American
Baltimore, Maryland, US
Tue, Aug 09, 1960
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