McAPUSH: Hunter Sheffield - The President Calling LBJ MLK

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Sunday, August 11, 2013

Hunter Sheffield - The President Calling LBJ MLK

I listened to President Lyndon B. Johnson talk to Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr. and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. During the conversation between LBJ and MLK they seemed to discuss how to get the voting rights bill passes. Johnson asked for King's help in getting Americans to see the wide discrimination against blacks that wanted to vote so they could see that it wasn't right and would want to make a change. So Martin Luther King Jr. organized a march to Montgomery from Selma, which resulted in "Bloody Sunday." Even after this occured MLK still had more marches organized and on one of these marches led to the death of a women named Viola Liuzzo, a white women. She was killed by some members of the Ku Klux Klan while she was driving a black man home from one of the marches. After her death, President Lyndon B. Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover talked about how the FBI caught the people that killed her. In my opinion it was good that MLK had these marches in order to stand up for the wide discrmination against blacks and to give them voting rites as well.