President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act as Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders look on; President's Room, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC. LBJ Library, photo by ...

In what some historians consider one of the best political speeches of the 20th century, former President Lyndon B. Johnson, 60 years ago this month, evoked memories of his former Mexican American ...

A Unionist Democrat from Tennessee, Andrew Johnson ... civil rights. He failed badly, to the extent that his ineffective leadership brought impeachment charges against him principally associated with ...

The 60th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s famous March 15 ... The issue at hand was the need to supplement the breakthrough Civil Rights Act of 1964 with companion legislation that ...

This ban on segregated facilities was put into place by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 after he signed the Civil Rights Act, which outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex ...

And the eye of Sauron descends on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and ... Almost from the time Lyndon Johnson handed Dr. King the pen with which h’d signed the CRA in 1964, the Republican Party ...