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Oral history transcript, James M. Quigley, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • for the purpose of again becoming a candidate for Congress, which I did in 1958, and I was elected again to the 86th Congress. Come 1960, of course, I had a different handicap. This time it wasn't Ike and his farm; this time it was John F. Kennedy and his religion
  • Act; Quigley's work on civil rights; LBJ's growth and sincerity regarding civil rights; civil rights in the Kennedy Administration; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and HEW's submission of ideas for the Act; 1963 events in Birmingham as a turning point