Power of the Coalition
"It would be this coalition of Negro voters ... that would then change the South"
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., telephone conversation with President Johnson, January 15, 1965
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., telephone conversation with President Johnson, January 15, 1965
Citizen coalition groups continue to provide a national voice on minority issues influencing the outcomes of legislation.
Achievements of the Coalitions
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"by 1976 when Jimmy Carter was elected president with precisely that coalition ...
the new arithmetic of power in the South, this coalition of blacks and moderate whites" - Neal Conan, Host, Talk of the Nation, NPR, Dr. Ronald Walters, Professor, University of Maryland, August 2, 2005 |