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

President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who were marching from Selma, Ala., ... Other instances include the aftermath of ...

Other instances include the aftermath of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., in 1968, and violence in Detroit in 1967. Johnson acted in 1965 after a governor refused AFP / via Getty Images ...

The National Guard was also called during the 1992 L.A. riots and the unrest that followed Martin Luther King Jr.’s ...

ANALYSIS: President need only look to his predecessors to see what will happen now that he has committed to military strikes ...

Other instances include the aftermath of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., in 1968, and violence in Detroit in 1967. Johnson acted in 1965 after a governor refused ...

The CIA has released an additional 54 documents in its third round of declassifying papers related to the 1968 assassination of former Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (D-N.Y.). The disclosure comes ...

The arrests took place in 1964 after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., himself jailed, sought their help amid civil rights violence in.

Americans today face an existential threat to our democracy and our rights, but not for the first time. In the past, ...

President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in response to protests in Los Angeles this weekend was the first time a U.S. president had taken such action in 60 years - and the last time ...

As federal troops occupy Los Angeles, political leaders invoke civil rights history—but their comparisons conceal more than ...

Signed in 1968, the Fair Housing Act legally prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, sex, and other protected categories in housing. Over fifty years later, access to safe and affordable ...