Ulrich Boser and Darleen Opfer talked about the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Among other topics they discussed how the act changed the landscape of education, its major ...

1965: President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, ushering in a major expansion of the federal role in schools. The centerpiece of the new law is the Title I ...

Fifty years ago, on April 11, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson went back to his old schoolhouse next to the Pedernales River in Stonewall, Texas, to sign the Elementary and Secondary Education Act ...

July 2, 1964 - Johnson signs the bill into law. August 4, 1964 - The FBI finds the bodies of the three missing civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi. They had been shot and buried ...

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law on this day in history, July 2, 1964, by President Lyndon B. Johnson. It forbade discrimination in public spaces, among other steps.

In January of 1965, President Lyndon Johnson was fresh off his re-election and in the midst of delivering 226 of the 252 initiatives outlined as part of his "Great Society" vision, that declared ...

WASHINGTON D.C. (WANE) — On this day, July 2, 1964, 36th President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. The law prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion ...

Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th President of the United States and the architect of some of the most significant federal social welfare programs like Medicare and Medicaid, died fifty years ago on Jan ...