Why Did Lyndon B Johnson Use Of Racial Equality

United States home to Freedom and Equality, America did not gain freedom and equality an overnight it took over hundreds of years to get. “May God write us down as asses if ever again we are found putting our trust in either the Republican or the Democratic parties” stated by W.E.B. DuBois, in 1922 after being deceived by Republican President Warren G. Harding and his promises for progression towards racial equality . During United States existence since 1776 two significant American presidents took action to use their power to permanently change and incorporate racial equality, President Abraham Lincoln and President Lyndon B. Johnson. During the interval between Lincoln, the 16th president, and Truman, the 36rd, blacks had grown accustomed …show more content…
The impact of the president on a personal level is usually minimized at a local level when compared to a national level. When the president makes a decision to take action against racial inequality everyone is paying attention, because the impact can be felt at a micro level. Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon B. Johnson both redefined the impact the president can have on a personal level. Both presidents transformed and progressed American society by abolishing laws that promoted racial disparities and promoting civil rights in governmental and social institution, both accomplished this by using their presidential powers as a resource to counteract the majority that supported racial inequality. Abraham Lincoln concentrated freeing African- American slaves so they can be considered as individual instead of property, which Lyndon B. Johnson took it to a step further decades later by giving these individual equal right and eliminating racial barriers in society created by governmental institutions. Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Baines Johnson, these two men will be forever linked as partners on the road to equal