With that assertion, President Lyndon B. Johnson on this day in 1964 signed into law a far-reaching civil rights act. The nation’s three TV networks carried the ceremony live from the East Room ...

President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act into law on July 2, 1964. (Cecil Stoughton/White House Press Office) If the president led and Congress followed, where did that leave the Supreme Court?

The Civil Rights Act of 1964, as well as the Voting Rights Act that Johnson signed a year later, swung open doors of opportunity for Americans who had been locked out for decades, Obama said.

Eight months later, on July 2, after the defeat of the longest filibuster in Senate history, Johnson signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act into law. LBJ and his Senate allies, especially Minnesota’s ...

Lyndon Johnson's presidential record has long been overshadowed by the failed war in Vietnam. But the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act is leading to a reassessment of his accomplishments.

AUSTIN - President Barack Obama on Thursday called on a new generation of Americans to take up the mantle of advancing civil rights that Lyndon Baines Johnson set in stone by passing the landmark ...

In “How LBJ Saved the Civil Rights Act,” a long piece for The Atlantic, Michael O’Donnell casts Johnson as the tireless and courageous hero of the bill: “Days after Kennedy’s murder ...

Obama, the nation's first African-American president, has credited the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — as well as the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — with expanding opportunities for people of color.

President Lyndon B. Johnson reached to shake hands with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at the signing of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. ( File - The Associated Press ) President Barack Obama reads ...

AUSTIN, Texas — President Obama lauded Lyndon B. Johnson on Thursday and offered lofty reflections on the importance of taking political risks to advance causes like the 1964 Civil Rights Act ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in a ceremony in the President's Room near the Senate Chambers on Aug. 6 | AP Photo By Andrew Glass 08/06/2017 06:56 AM EDT ...

WHEN Lyndon Johnson became president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, so closely had he played his political cards that nobody was exactly sure what he believed in. Very quickly, the ...