President Obama hasn't talked much about Lyndon Johnson, perhaps because of the legacy of Vietnam. Today, at LBJ's presidential library in Austin, on the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, ...

President Barack Obama, along with some of his predecessors, is participating in a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act by former President Lyndon B Johnson—a ...

Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee laid out how former President Lyndon B. Johnson’s battle to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has important implications for the adoption of the SAVE America Act during ...

Temple now serves as chair of the LBJ Foundation in Austin and recently played host to four current and former presidents, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. The four came to ...

Hubert Humphrey: the idealistic firebrand who electrified the 1948 Democratic convention and relentlessly championed civil rights for more than twenty years. Lyndon Johnson: the wily, pragmatic Senate ...

Two Civil Rights Titans: LBJ And MLK How President Johnson and Martin Luther King Jr. worked to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. 7 minute read August 19, 2005 at 12 ...

This is an opinion column. It would be two more months before President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It was still making its way through a clogged and conflicted but ...