Week of Feb. 23
February 23: LBJ Takes Charge
Hugh Davis Graham, “The Origins of Affirmative Action: Civil Rights and the Regulatory State,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
James F. Findlay, “Religion and Politics in the Sixties: The Churches and the Civil Rights Act of 1964,” Journal of American History
LBJ addresses join session of Congress after JFK’s assassination:
February 25: The 1964 Election
Thomas Sugrue, “Crabgrass-Roots Politics: Race, Rights, and the Reaction Against Liberalism in the Urban North, 1940-1964,” Journal of American History 82 (1995), 551-78.
LBJ negative ads:
Goldwater campaign commercial:
Ronald Reagan endorses Goldwater:
The outcome: 
