1964

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• 1/24/2021
  

  1964: The Election that Turned American Politics Tribal

  by James A. Morone

  In 1964, George Wallace's primary challenge to LBJ inspired Republicans to take up the mantle of the white party. Trumpism represents the dead end of that path. 

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• SOURCE: PBS
  6-24-14
  

  Freedom Summer -- American Experinece (Video)

  American Experience does Freedom Summer.

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• 4-11-14
  

  1964 at 50: Remembering the Mississippi Summer Project

  Hear from the activists who helped change America 50 years ago. Don't miss it!

• SOURCE: NYT
  7-29-13
  

  William Scranton, Former Pennsylvania Governor, Dies at 96

  William W. Scranton, the moderate Republican governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967, who lost a run for his party’s presidential nomination in 1964 and later served as the United States representative to the United Nations, died on Sunday in Montecito, Calif. He was 96.The cause was a cerebral hemorrhage, Micheal DeVanney, a family spokesman, said.A descendant of Mayflower colonists and the founders of Scranton, Pa., heir to a fortune in railroads and utilities, the soft-spoken Mr. Scranton was heralded as a “Kennedy Republican” in the early 1960s. His amiable patrician style, and his independence as a fiscal conservative who supported civil rights and other liberal programs, proved popular with voters. He seemed poised for a national political future....