Eartha Kitt Took The Flower Power Fight To The White House
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Earth Kitt had no time for niceties when she attended a luncheon with Ladybird Johnson in 1968. Sitting in a room full of powerful women, they were supposed to talk about the nation’s juvenile delinquency problem. Instead, they talked about flowers.
When Kitt spoke, she turned attention back to where it belonged,”they don’t want to go to school because they’re going to be snatched off from their mothers to be shot in Vietnam.” Kitt became an example of political disobedience and was blackballed from the industry. She would not find success for the next decade.
