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OPEN HOUSING
By portraying a senator using a torch to light a cigar, Herblock gives the legislative body culpability equal to that of “Black Power” leaders and white bigots in the demise of the civil rights bill of 1966. President Johnson, in reaction to Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, open housing marches in Chicago, wanted to protect the rights of all Americans to purchase and rent property, but he did not succeed until 1968. Unable to invoke cloture and prevent a filibuster, the Senate effectively closed the door on Johnson’s housing bill.
Open Housing, 1966. Published in the Washington Post, September 20, 1966. |