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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The film, while making the legitimate point that the civil rights movement was very much a bottom-up struggle, goes out of its way to portray Johnson as being indifferent and even hostile to moving voting rights legislation.  Instead it's clear that Johnson and King had a good working relationship on civil and voting rights.  (Their relationship would turn more distant when King later criticized the Vietnam war.)[/quote]

It absolutely did not do this.  Johnson does not appear to be hostile in the movie.  What movie did you see?  It's clear in the movie that they had a good working relationship.[/quote]

I agree with this.  I didn't think the movie painted LBJ in an unfavorable light or as an obstacle to the movement. [/quote]

To see through the movie propaganda, you need to first of all understand what took place. Have you read the multiple objections by recognized historians? Have you at the very least read Caro's amazing books on LBJ?[/quote]

Certainly there have been objections by LBJ historians and the head of the LBJ Library, but within the larger field of (respected) historians there are a much wider range of opinions.  Check out Peniel Joseph's piece on Selma for CodeSwitch.  He is very respected historian-his book "Waiting 'til the Midnight Hour" is an excellent read.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2015/01/10/376081786/selma-backlash-misses-the-point[/quote]

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