Carl Leubsdorf rewrites civil rights history

By: Kevin Groenhagen (Diary)  |  November 29th at 03:26 PM  | 

On November 25, Carl Leubsdorf of the Dallas Daily News claimed that prior to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, “Republicans were using opposition to civil rights to woo the South from its century-long Democratic home.” In doing so, Leubsdorf suggests that it was the Democrat Party that helped Lyndon Johnson pass that bill, while the GOP opposed the bill. That was not the case.