Robert Moses spent weekends at the summer residence of the Sulzberger family, who owned The New York Times

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The founding philosophy of the United States was rooted in the premise that human life is perfectible on Earth

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young was forced to resign in 1979 after holding an unauthorized meeting with the Palestine Liberation Organization

Biographer Robert Caro interviewed former Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge regarding Lyndon B. Johnson's early civil rights views

The Civil Rights Act of 1957 retained jury trial guarantees for Southern election officials, avoiding a Southern Democratic filibuster

The Civil Rights Act of 1957 retained jury trial protections for Southern election officials, preventing a Southern filibuster

Lyndon B. Johnson added a provision to the Civil Rights Act of 1957 ensuring Black citizens the right to serve on federal juries

During the 1950s, Southern states required jurors to be registered voters, which resulted in all-white juries in civil rights prosecutions

Former Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge told Robert Caro that freshman Senator Lyndon B. Johnson expressed no sympathy for Black Americans

The Civil Rights Act of 1957 included a provision establishing the right of African American citizens to serve on federal juries

Southern senators demanded that civil rights legislation require criminal contempt cases against election registrars to be tried by juries

Negotiations over the Civil Rights Act of 1957 deadlocked over whether Southern voting officials accused of voter suppression would receive jury trials

Texas blue laws prohibiting the Sunday sale of 42 specific consumer goods, including electronics, clothing, and kitchen utensils, were repealed in 1985

Southern state laws required jurors in federal trials to be registered voters, excluding African American citizens from southern jury panels

Federal Depression-era work-relief funding for New York City was allocated directly to infrastructure projects developed by Robert Moses's planning and engineering staff

Robert Moses maintained personal ties with Arthur Hays Sulzberger's family, the owners of The New York Times

During the 1930s and 1940s, New York high school students voted Robert Moses the most admired New Yorker

Robert Moses built 672 of the 899 miles of highways completed in New York State by 1964

The New York State Legislature approved the Triborough Bridge Authority Act of 1933

In 1968, the Ocean Hill-Brownsville governing board removed Jewish schoolteachers, sparking a teachers' union strike in New York City

New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia kept pre-printed resignation forms prepared because of Robert Moses's repeated resignation threats