In this July 2, 1964, file photo, President Lyndon B. Johnson reaches to shake hands with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. after presenting the civil rights leader with one of the 72 pens used to sign ...

A mural depicting Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and U.S. President Lyndon Johnson on display in Selma, Alabama, January 8, 2015. The town was the scene of a major civil rights confrontation in March ...

Charles Peters talked about the tenure of the 36th U.S. president, Lyndon B. Johnson. Mr. Peters, who worked in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations from 1961-1968, presented a first-hand ...

Lyndon Baines Johnson. Lyndon Baines Johnson , also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States, serving from 1963 to 1969. He became president after the assassination of John F ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, ... it had been 60 years since a U.S. president federalized a state's National Guard force without the cooperation of its governor.

In this Aug. 10, 1964 file photo, President Lyndon B Johnson signs the Joint Resolution for the Maintenance of International Peace and Security, ... a burst of applause began behind us.

In this week's episode of the Presidential podcast, LBJ Presidential Library Director Mark Updegrove helps us examine how Lyndon Johnson worked his will—at times darkly—to get some of the most ...

Following that law, US President Lyndon B. Johnson signed landmark civil rights bills including the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the 1968 Fair Housing Act. Other Facts "Each year, ...

But we believe, with all that is in us, that he would want us to speak now and loudly for voting rights. ... President Lyndon Johnson, signed the Civil Rights Act on Luci’s 17th birthday.