Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson. July 31, 2015. Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), ... to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. ...

Clifford L. Alexander Jr. says nobody from the news media has asked him, but that anyone who says that President Lyndon B. Johnson was at odds with Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights ...

Sixty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6, 1965, Black Americans are facing diluted advances and fighting some of the battles already won.

On this day: LBJ calls calls for equal voting rights 00:53 "I speak tonight for the dignity of man and the destiny of democracy," President Lyndon B. Johnson declared before congress on March 15th ...

On May 21, Richard N. Goodwin, President Lyndon Johnson’s speechwriter, ... In four years, the number of Southern black voters increased from 1 million to more than 3 million.

In conservative quarters, Johnson's racism -- and the racist show he would put on for Southern segregationists -- is presented as proof of the Democratic conspiracy to somehow trap black voters ...

Just over a year later on July 2, 1964, our father, President Lyndon Johnson, signed the Civil Rights Act on Luci’s 17th birthday. It was the best birthday present anybody ever gave anybody.

On voting rights, let's finish what my dad, Lyndon Johnson, and John Lewis started. I beamed behind my father and marched beside John Lewis when they took a stand for justice for all Americans.

President Lyndon B. Johnson addresses a joint session of Congress in Washington, D.C., on March 15, 1965, to outline his proposals for voting rights for all citizens.

Especially in the half century since Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, voting for Democrats has become a political norm among African Americans—a norm that individuals in black social ...

W hen President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law, exactly 50 years ago on Thursday, he noted that the day was “a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that ...

Fifty years ago, on Aug. 6, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, legislation he would later identify as the most important of his political career. The bill was born from ...