Post by the Scribe on Aug 31, 2020 1:38:13 GMT
And I say very modestly that I have done more for the African-American community than any president since Abraham Lincoln, our first Republican president.
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed landmark legislation in the 1960s to protect African Americans’ voting rights, as well as to protect them from discrimination. Multiple historians pointed to Johnson, as well as laws and regulations enacted by Presidents Ulysses Grant and Harry Truman, in a thorough June Washington Post fact check of a similar claim from Trump.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/05/trumps-claim-that-hes-done-more-blacks-than-any-president-since-lincoln/
Danielle Kurtzleben
NPR Political Reporter
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed landmark legislation in the 1960s to protect African Americans’ voting rights, as well as to protect them from discrimination. Multiple historians pointed to Johnson, as well as laws and regulations enacted by Presidents Ulysses Grant and Harry Truman, in a thorough June Washington Post fact check of a similar claim from Trump.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/05/trumps-claim-that-hes-done-more-blacks-than-any-president-since-lincoln/
Danielle Kurtzleben
NPR Political Reporter