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

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

Before Saturday, the last time a president sent Guard troops in to deal with civil unrest without cooperation from the ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson invoked that authority in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who were marching from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery. That incident is now in the ...

Here is a look at the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Considered the nation’s most important civil rights legislation since Reconstruction (1865-1877), it prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, ...

Presidents have used the national guard before, but only to protect civil rights, not to deny the right to protest.

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

President Donald Trump deployed the California National Guard on Sunday. Here's what we know about the protests.

Governor Gavin Newsom said California is suing the Trump administration after the president deployed National Guard troops in ...