On Thursday, April 5th, the LBJ Museum of San Marcos and the Department of Political Science hosted a panel discussion on the relationship between President Lyndon Johnson and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. Elvin Holt of the English department, and Drs. Rodolfo Hernandez and Ed Mihalkanin from Political Science, discussed how the collaboration between LBJ and MLK helped create the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as well the importance of these landmark pieces of legislation today.
