I really have no idea what to say, but LBj was a great Texan that got the Civil Rights and Voter’s Rights Acts passed.
Originally Posted by OliviaHoward
LBJ certainly pushed it through Congress, doesn't happen without him. He did however need the support of Republicans to get it through. While there were Republican senators like Goldwater who fought the bill (though he argued against it less from a racial pov then as imposing laws on private businesses which he believed was out of the purview of the Feds) it was the Southern Democrats that fought it tooth and nail and filibustered it. The first (or one of the first) cloture vote on a filibuster that succeeded was for the Civil Rights Act.