The Republican Who Saved Civil Rights - Todd S. Purdum - POLITICO Magazine

The Republican Who Saved Civil Rights - Todd S. Purdum - POLITICO Magazine: "Fifty years ago, the congressman from Piqua was an equally conservative fellow — but an altogether different man. His name was Bill McCulloch, and at the height of John F. Kennedy’s effort to pass the first comprehensive federal civil rights law since Reconstruction, it was McCulloch — a now forgotten figure — who rose above mere partisanship to give first Kennedy, and then Lyndon B. Johnson, the power to pass the single most important law of the 20th century."

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