Born in poverty in Texas Hill Country, President Johnson delivered an unsurpassed series of momentous legislation, including the Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act. Yet by 1968 he was so ...

In what some historians consider one of the best political speeches of the 20th century, former President Lyndon B. Johnson, 60 years ago this month, evoked memories of his former Mexican American ...

Instead, as Horn argues, these last pieces of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society program “allow[ed] the design for the perfect financial crime to arise.” The Civil Rights Act ...

Kennedy, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr ... A year after the assassination, the Warren Commission, which President Lyndon B. Johnson established to investigate, concluded that ...

Trump issued an executive order on January 23, announcing that documents pertaining to the deaths of JFK, as well as his younger brother, Senator Robert F Kennedy (RFK) and civil rights activist ...

Ferguson. Despite the court ruling, schools, businesses, and services would continue to employ "de facto segregation" for the following decade leading to the rise of the Civil Rights Movement.

Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and civil rights activist who had a seismic ... to prevent another march until ...

The administration is moving to slash legally mandated equal employment opportunity and civil rights offices that empower federal ... Trump rescinded President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Executive Order ...

A 110-year-old Colorado estate that has hosted Frank Sinatra and Lyndon B. Johnson just slashed $10 million off its price tag. The 12,000-square-foot manor house—with 25 rooms—and its five ...

The San Francisco Office for Civil Rights is closing down as part of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Department of Education. It is uncertain what will come of the backlog of the ...