DISCUSSION:

Wednesday, January 17, 7 P.M.

Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws That Changed America

(Houghton Mifflin, 2005)

With author Nick Kotz; moderated by

Sam Freedman, Columbia University School of Journalism

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nick Kotz draws on a wealth of newly available sources – from President Johnson’s telephone conversations to FBI wiretap logs – to provide the first definitive account of the relationship between these two great leaders.

Celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Opposites in almost every way, suspicious of each other at first, President Johnson and Dr. King were thrust together in the aftermath of John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Both men sensed an opportunity and began a delicate dance of accommodation that moved them and the entire nation toward the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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