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Following her demise in 2007, the in depth audio diaries of former First Lady Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson turned available to the general public. Now, a brand new documentary on Hulu by Dawn Porter options the diaries she recorded all through her husband Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency.
Beginning almost instantly after LBJ took workplace following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, The Lady Bird Diaries follows Lady Bird Johnson documenting every kind of points of her life as First Lady.
Mrs. Johnson is only one instance of how girls’s energy and affect in politics grew all through the twentieth century.
In this month’s The Bigger Picture, the place Houston Matters explores social and cultural matters in movie, we talk about different notable girls in politics who laid the groundwork for future generations.
In the audio above, Joshua Zinn talks with Charles Dove, Director of Rice Cinema and the Film Program at Rice University, and Nancy Beck Young, Chair of the History Department and Moores Professor of History on the University of Houston.
