LBJ's legacy reviewed at MU

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Historians hold symposium

Sunday, April 26, 1998

BY RANDY McNUTT
The Cincinnati Enquirer

OXFORD -- The tumultuous 1960s will return this week when Miami University's history department sponsors the symposium "Lyndon Baines Johnson's America: The Legacy."

It will be held Monday through Wednesday. Keynote speaker is Mary Frances Berry, author and chairwoman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. The symposium is a part of the McClellan Lecture Series, which features lectures by experts and policy makers on topics such as law and order, poverty and labor, politics and appointments, race and poverty and the legacy of President Johnson, said Professor W. Sherman Jackson.

The lectures are free and open to the public.

Ms. Berry will speak on "Civil Rights and the Great Society." She will speak in Room 115 at Shideler Hall at 8 p.m. Tuesday.

On Monday, three sessions will be held in Shideler:

At 9:15-11 a.m., "Safe Streets, Crime Control and Public Order in the Great Society," and "Criminal Justice, Bill of Rights and the Great Society."

At 12:45-3:15 p.m., "The War on Poverty, Legal Services and Curious Development of the Welfare Advocacy," "Native Americans and the War on Poverty," and "Tragedy in the Uranium Mines: Catalyst for National Workers' Safety and Health Legislation."

At 3:30-5:30 p.m., "President Lyndon B. Johnson and the Appointment of Robert C. Weaver as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development," and "You're My Kind of Republican: Lyndon Johnson, Everett Dirksen and the Politics of the Washington Establishment."

Tuesday's lectures, also held in 115 Shideler, will focus on race and poverty.

From 8:30-11 a.m. Wednesday, the symposium will conclude with critiques on Great Society liberalism and the lecture "Under Fire: LBJ, American Artists and the Vietnam War."

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