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All the Way is a play by Robert Schenkkan that depicts President Lyndon B. Johnson’s efforts to maneuver members of the 88th United States Congress to enact and civil rights leaders including Martin Luther King Jr. to support the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The play takes its name from Johnson’s 1964 campaign slogan All the Way with LBJ.

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author
Robert Schenkkan
character in play
Hubert Humphrey, J. Edgar Hoover, Lady Bird Johnson, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Russell
IBDB ID
495850
premiere date
2012-07-28
premiere place
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
premiere year
2012-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
setting of play
Washington D.C. Atlantic City Mississippi Atlanta November 1963 to November 1964
subject of play
Politics

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