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 ...

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

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.

The last time was in 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson sent the National Guard to protect Civil Rights marchers from ...

President Joe Biden is set to deliver a major speech on civil rights and democracy at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin next Monday, the same day the Republican National Convention begins in ...

the 1964 Civil Rights Act, 1965 Voting Rights Act and the 1968 Fair Housing Act. Lyndon Johnson was the last U.S. president -- until Biden -- to not seek a second term in the White House.

The American Promise speech, delivered on March 15, 1965, drew attention ... Photo: Robert Knudsen/LBJ Library Flashback: Mike Herrera, son of the late Houston civil rights attorney John J.