A key event in Alabama’s civil rights history occurred June 11, 1963, in Tuscaloosa. That hot summer day began with then-Gov.

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On the C-SPAN Networks: Nicholas Katzenbach was a Deputy Attorney General for the Department of Justice with 31 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1964 Compiled Program.

Johnson asked his attorney general, Nicholas Katzenbach, to draft “the goddamnedest, toughest voting rights act that you can.” Attacks by law enforcement officers and Klan members on attempts ...

Twenty-six states were lined up on opposing sides. U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach himself was both defendant and defense counsel. The court allotted eight hours—longest in memory ...

They were riveted as Kennedy himself sent his deputy attorney general, Nicholas Katzenbach, to get two young black students admitted as they attempted to enroll in the heretofore segregated ...

Kennedy ‘s deputy attorney general, Nicholas Katzenbach, challenged Gov. George Wallace over desegregating the University of Alabama. Wallace lost, but his loss helped spark the power shift that ...

George Wallace attempts to block integration at the University of Alabama. He is confronted by Deputy U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach. Credit: Buyenlarge/Getty Images Vivian Malone and James ...

Nicholas Katzenbach, representing then-President Lyndon Johnson, sat there in a different decade, defending the making of an undeclared war. All the president’s men sat there, in the summer of ...