The American Promise speech, delivered on March 15, 1965, drew attention ... Photo: Robert Knudsen/LBJ Library Flashback: Mike Herrera, son of the late Houston civil rights attorney John J.

was president of the League of United Latin American Citizens in 1965, then the nation’s largest Latino civil rights organization. LBJ had told him privately about his Cotulla experience ...

The 60th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s famous March 15, 1965 ... effective piece of civil rights legislation ever passed by Congress.” The key to the speech, written by Richard ...

American actor and filmmaker Bryan Cranston spoke at the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of ... his interpretation of LBJ's speech.

Johnson at his desk in November 1957 Bettman via Getty Images On August 7, 1957, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson voted yea on the first civil ... Rights Act on August 6, 1965 Public ...

the 1964 Civil Rights Act, 1965 Voting Rights Act and the 1968 Fair Housing Act. Lyndon Johnson was the last U.S. president -- until Biden -- to not seek a second term in the White House.