A few days later, accompanied by their parents and attorney Vernon Jordan, the pair negotiated their way to the school's registrar's office through a menacing gauntlet of raucous whites shouting racial epithets.
We see Lyndon Johnson (Liev Schreiber), for example, sitting on the toilet and shouting a certain racialepithet, and this is the man who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.