President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who ...

On March 15, 1965, a week after dozens of civil rights protesters were bloodied on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., President Lyndon B ... made a very emotional speech, probably one ...

The 60th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s famous March 15, 1965 ... effective piece of civil rights legislation ever passed by Congress.” The key to the speech, written by Richard ...

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 ...

While his famous speeches and marches helped ... Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. U.S. Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson signs the 1964 Civil Rights Act as Martin Luther King Jr. and others ...

Last night, POTUS revoked EO11246 signed by LBJ in 1965, mandating equal opportunities by federal contractors. While this EO had broader sweep in 1965 given past limits on Title VII, it has been a ...

President Joe Biden's speech drew an enthusiastic response from invited guests at the LBJ Presidential Library to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. Ahead of his trip to ...

LBJ to push for the passage of the Civil Rights Act. That law paved the way for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which ended discriminatory voting laws. After his speech in Austin, President Biden ...

AUSTIN, Texas (KBTX) - In his first public speech ... visited the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library in Austin on Monday to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

American actor and filmmaker Bryan Cranston spoke at the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of ... his interpretation of LBJ's speech.

It was his first major speech since his Oval Office address on his 2024 exit. President Joe Biden on Monday visited the LBJ Presidential Library to mark the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights ...