Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson voted yea on the first civil rights bill passed by Congress in 82 years. He was joined by 71 of his Senate colleagues, including 43 Republicans and 28 ...

Forty years ago today, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a bill that changed the face of America. It opened all public accommodations -- hotels, restaurants ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas was lauded by four successor presidents as a Lincoln-esque groundbreaker for civil rights, but President Barack Obama also noted that Johnson also had long ...

Parker would reflect on the Johnson who championed the landmark civil rights bills that formally ended American apartheid, and write, "I loved that Lyndon Johnson." Then he remembered the ...

Hours after the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed the House of Representatives on July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson entered the East Room of the White House. Dressed in a black suit ...

The civil rights movement has always been very personal ... Lynda Johnson Robb and Luci Baines Johnson are the daughters of President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson asked a joint session of ... then the nation’s largest Latino civil rights organization. LBJ had told him privately about his Cotulla experience ...

Whenever I write anything regarding President Lyndon B. Johnson, a conservative ... I found a fascinating article on MSNBC titled "Lyndon Johnson was a civil rights hero. But also a racist." ...

Lyndon B. Johnson became the 36th President of the United States when John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963. After finishing Kennedy's term, Johnson ran in his own right and won the ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had already signed the Civil Rights act into law, and he said he ...

Lyndon B. Johnson was vital in passing key pieces of civil rights legislation. Here we look at that legislation and everything he contributed to the movement. Camping World CEO defies lawsuits ...