One president emerged as a pivotal figure in the progression of the Civil Rights Movement and that was Lyndon B. Johnson. When LBJ took office after John F. Kennedy was assassinated, the country ...

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President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who were marching from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery.

WASHINGTON D.C. (WANE) — On this day, July 2, 1964, 36th President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. The law prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion ...

Barack Obama wrapped himself on Thursday in the civil rights legacy of Lyndon B. Johnson, the 1960s president who helped clear the way for an African-American to one day become U.S. president.

President Joe Biden is set to visit the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library in Austin to deliver a Monday speech marking the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.. The speech ...