It seems to me that he might have had a dream that blacks could legally apply for any job they wanted with a fair chance of getting it based on qualifications. I think he'd be pretty disappointed at the direction his dream has taken.
Not quite sure. I did think at the time that his thinking was indeed closer to that of Booker Washinton and A.Phillip Randolph, which was to ensure that black men could obtain dignified employment and thus be able to earn equal status in American society. In other words, to be able to do what poor white Southerners were just then becoming able to do in the post-war period. I think it was LBJ’s aim to break segregation because the poverty that had gripped the South since the Civil War could now be set aside and indeed ought to because it caused whites to spend too much time worrying about dividing a small pot of money. Unlike Obama, for instance, LBJ did want to grow the economy and expected it to grow. The problem was he was too optimistic,