Just starting "Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws That Changed America", since today is Martin Luther King Jr Day, and this year is the 50th anniversary of the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Also, it's on sale at Amazon (see Arcadata's thread
). I was in grade school then, and aware of those events at a distance, like the Mississippi civil rights workers murders by the Klan - it all seems so far away now.