Evers' friendship with LBJ as VP and President; LBJ as Chairman of Equal Employment Commission for JFK; LBJ and Louis Martin at meeting of black leaders; Voters' Rights Bill signed into law; Bobby Kennedy's run for presidency; Senator James Eastland and Senator John Stennis; Evers as NAACP field director; work for education; housing; employment; Ramsey Clark; Lady Bird's Dixie tour; federal programs in Mississippi; friends Charles Percy of Illinois and Nelson Rockefeller of New York; SNCC; CORE; SCLC in Mississippi.
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Oral history transcript, Charles Evers, interview 1 (I), 4/3/1974, by Joe B. Frantz, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed September 4, 2025, https://discoverlbj.org/item/oh-eversc-19740403-1-79-106