During the upheaval of the civil rights era, the U.S. president and the nation's leading agitator had a little-known, behind-the-scenes relationship. Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Rev. Martin ...

Obama will visit Johnson's presidential library in Austin, Texas, to remedy what some Johnson admirers have described as a 'pattern of omission.' Obama to honor Lyndon Johnson and the Civil Rights ...

Today marks 51 years since President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The seminal legislation made discrimination based on race, color, nationality, or gender illegal. But it ...

The current president and first lady Michelle Obama will attend a "civil rights summit" on April 10 at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, said White House spokesman ...

It was Lyndon Johnson who neutered the 1957 Civil Rights Act with a poison pill amendment that required violators of the act to be tried before state (all white), not federal, juries.

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Barack Obama wrapped himself on Thursday in the civil rights legacy of Lyndon B. Johnson, the 1960s president who helped clear the way for an African-American to one day ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- Democrats used to run away from Lyndon Baines Johnson the way people in movies run from Godzilla. Not anymore. "The story of America is the story of progress, and that's true ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Forty-five years after he was driven from the White House in despair and disrepute over Vietnam, four presidents and a raft of luminaries from the worlds of politics, sports and ...

Marking the 50 th anniversary of the death of the 36th President of the United States, Lyndon Baines Johnson, on January 22, 1973, Mark K. Updegrove, president and chief executive of the LBJ ...