In my notes in the David Susskind interview of King in 1963, which I saw on YouTube, a one hour forty minute masterclass interview, King makes many important insights in a brilliant discussion. It reveals a far different environment than we have today, and shows that Southern Democratic Party was the racist one until 1964. For example, at one point King says: “It merely means substituting an inadequate performance for a miserable one.” He's talking about the racism embedded in the two parties, and he is saying that the Kennedy administration is actually performing worse than the Eisenhower performance. Eisenhower did in fact pass a Civil Rights Act in 1957, when there were no Republicans in the South to resist, but that Act hadn't gone far enough and was on "inadequate." King wanted to push it further and break through the voting barrier and make Kennedy pass a Civil Rights Act that would for desegregation of schools, which the Southern Democrats were not allowing and resisting, and get the blacks to vote, to engage in democracy, which was repressed. No white president up until that interview in the 20th century would fight for the constitutional rights of black Americans to be enforced. We need another such movement today.