The makers of the movie "Selma" about Martin Luther King did not appreciate the fact that John Gardner, Lyndon B Johnson's cabinet secretary said that a necessity for effective citizen action and governing was to build an "inside outside alliance." The movie makes Lyndon B Johnson seem like he was a reluctant supporter of the Voting Rights Act, finally giving blacks in the south the right to vote. In the movie, Johnson decides to support this only after a lot of convincing from Martin Luther King. But actually, Johnson was a strong supporter of civil rights. He endorsed the civil rights act in his State of Union address 2 months before Selma.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/19/us/politics/a-villain-in-selma-but-not-in-real-life.html?ref=politics&_r=0
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