LBJ devoted his presidency to fighting for equal rights for blacks.
That may be the biggest lie you have ever told:
LBJ: "These uppity negroes have something they have never had before, power to support their movement. We have to give them something, but not enough to make a difference...I will have these ni@@ers voting Democrat for the next 200 years!"
Yeah, he sounds like a real 'champion' for blacks. When he realized the KKK had not worked and blacks now had power through Civil Rights he devised a plan to wrest that power from them by scamming them into GIVING liberals that power, and their votes, in exchange for hand-outs and freebies - the modern day 'economic slavery' with which they control the blacks today.
(And don't even ask for a link to the quote because I have provided you with one at least a dozen times before. You should have it memorized by now.)
You don't have a link to the quote, because it's a bogus internet myth.
But speaking of, you know who was the first POTUS since Grant to prosecute the KKK?
Lyndon Johnson. 1965. The moment "when he realized the KKK had not worked" was in his childhood: And unfortunately for your internet message board mythology-mongering,
this one DOES have a link...
>> With Sam Johnson Sr. reporting the events surrounding the [Leo} Frank case to the Johnson family. Lyndon learned the facts of the case and all the race hatred involved in the trial and the lynching. He never forgot what harm that racism could do and he remained friendly to Jews throughout his life, in addition to developing concern for blacks, Catholics, and other minority groups. In his political career, LBJ could always count on solid support from the Jewish community in Texas and, later, on the national community as well. Historlan Robert Dalleck pointed out that although Johnson occasionally engaged in "rhetorical anti-Semitism," he stlll had sympathy for the downtrodden. "There was something about him," Dalleck contended, "that made him sympathize with the underdog. It may have been his harsh boyhood in the Texas hill country... or there was his sense of emptiness, a hole in his psych [sic] that made him identify with the persecuted."12
Young Lyndon's grandfather and father also educated him about Tom Watson, a one-time Georgia Populist firebrand with egalitarian views who metamorphosed into a racist and bigot. Watson used his monthly Watson's Magazine and his weekly paper, The Jeffersonian, to arouse Georgians against Leo Frank, calling him a "jew pervert," among other derogatory names.13
Events away from his Texas home were not all that made an impresslon on the young Lyndon Johnson. The same year the Georgia mob lynched Leo Frank:, LBJ's father had several confrontations with the Texas Ku Klux Klan, a group he condemned on the floor of the Texas legislature. LBJ proudly watched from the gallery as his father called the group "KuKluxsonsofbitches." Later, the Klan made him a target of their terrorist campaign. 14 LBJ's younger brother Sam Houston Johnson remembered one threatening phone call to the Johnson home. After listening to a death threat, Sam Johnson, Jr., boomed, "Now, listen here. you Ku Klux Klan son-of-a-*****, if you and your goddamned gang think you're man enough to shoot me. you come on ahead. My brothers and I will be waiting for you out on the front porch."'15
LBJ learned something that night. He learned of fear and terrorism born of racial and ethnic hatred as he and his brother hid in an earthen cellar near their home while his father, uncles, and older cousins --- all with loaded shotguns --- waited for the Klansmen. The Johnson men stationed themselves at intervals along a front porch and waited until dawn. Apparently losing their nerve, the terrorists never came. Sam Houston Johnson said later, "The Kukluxsonofabictches never showed up. But after that my daddy carried a gun wherever he went, even as he sat in the Hous of Representatives in Austin."I6
Learning practical lessons from incidents such as Klan threats, and saturated with the news his grandfather and father related --- sometimes-current events, sometimes history --- young LBJ internalized the lessons. He never gave himself over to irrational racial hatred. As a mature man, he did the opposite; he helped minority groups, advancing their causes whenever he could. According to Horace Busby. a long-time Johnson aide and speechwriter. the mature LBJ often mentioned the Leo Frank case and similar persecutions of others. Johnson said that those kinds of incidents were the sources for his opposition to anti-Semitism and to all other forms of racism. Johnson felt that such events --- which led to the Holocaust --- were responsible for his internatlonalism and his opposition to isolationism. He seemed to believe, but left unspoken, that America had a duty to act in the international arena whenever any group carried out genocidal war against another group. Later, another long-time aide, George Reedy, added that LBJ "had less bigotry in him than anybody else I have ever met... he was not a racist."17
"Leo Frank" referred to above, for those of you obviously allergic to history books, was a factory manager in Atlanta who was accused, on scant evidence, of the death and abuse of one of the factory workers, a girl named Mary Phagan. As did many others the Johnson family called for a rational legal course over the mob violence that eventually prevailed when a mob calling itself the "Knights of Mary Phagan" captured Frank from prison and lynched him, this event leading directly to the re-formation of the Ku Klux Klan by a Baptist preacher, salesman and huckster named William Simmon --- his first recruits in restarting the Klan under a burning cross on Stone Mountain on Thanksgiving Day 1915 were members of this same Knights of Mary Phagan lynch mob, with a primary stated purpose of protecting white women from the horrors of miscegenation. Anyone who opposed Leo Frank (a Jew) being railroaded, or opposed the lynch mob, became a target of the Knights/Klan's death threats, and that's why the Johnsons were targeted.
Sorry if actual recorded history doesn't synch well with your wankadoodle internet mythology, but that's the way the world works.