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LBJ Carried Poor Texas Town With Him In Civil Rights Fight
President Lyndon Johnson / Civil Rights and The Power of Education
38 years before becoming President, LBJ worked as a teacher in a poor Mexican community in Texas
He never forgot them...
NPR : LBJ Carried Poor Texas Town With Him In Civil Rights Fight
Long before he was president, Lyndon Johnson taught in Cotulla, Texas. He is pictured here with students in 1928. Courtesy of LBJ Library
Lyndon Johnson Speaks In Cotulla In 1966
Audio courtesy of LBJ Presidential Library