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Oral history transcript, Sterling Tucker, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in most of that activity. I was a I was heavily Close to Dr. Martin Luther King --closely associated with all the national civil rights leaders. B: What was your opinion of the Justice Department's, and the Kennedy Administration generally, handling
  • King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
  • How Tucker met LBJ; LBJ’s reputation in regard to civil rights; LBJ’s work as a Vice-President; Tucker’s involvement in the civil rights movement; Martin Luther King; the 1963 March on Washington; LBJ’s interest in civil rights early in his
Oral history transcript, Gerri Whittington, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • anything, but he told me. And said among Roy Wilkins, Martin Luther King, and Whitney Young and James Farmer; he said that Roy Wilkins was his favorite. G: Did you meet those civil rights leaders when they came to the White House? W: Yes. He sent me
Oral history transcript, Eugene C. Patterson, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Luther King, Jr., was buried in Atlanta on a Monday. There was speculation in the press and on the wire services that the President was going to that funeral. He called me when I was fis hin g at Callaway Gardens in Georgia and I took the call from