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 ...

Regarding Scott Paulo’s letter quoting Lyndon Baines Johnson, I have some more interesting LBJ quotes. Concerning the 1957 Civil Rights Act, LBJ told Mississippi Senator James Eastland ...

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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 expected to sign the Voting Rights ...