Accommodation Quote by Robert Dallek

“In 1963 activists demanding racial justice forced President Kennedy to come out for civil rights legislation. Within a year and a half of Kennedy's…

— James T. Patterson

[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do…

— Bill Ayers

Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and 1965, Johnson's principal goals were to win the…

— H. R. McMaster

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.

— Henry Rollins

Only time [JF] Kennedy made any, took any action to even look like he identified with negroes was when he was forced to. Kennedy…

— Malcolm X

Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Lyndon Johnson wanted to emancipate the whites as much as people of color, because he knew how, particularly in the South, but not only…

— Lynda Bird Johnson Robb

During the whole month that negroes were being beaten by police and washed down the sewer with water hoses, Kennedy and - and King…

— Malcolm X

There's a great book about John Kennedy and his relationship to civil rights called 'The Bystander.' The title alone suggests that he did as…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably forced his…

— Tom Wicker

When Kennedy could not get the civil rights bill passed - and he was the big liberal - Lyndon Johnson came in and it…

— Jim Brown

Some Kennedy aides have always insisted that Johnson misread J.F.K.'s plans for Vietnam. They say that Kennedy had begun to rethink the U.S. presence…

— Robert Dallek