Just over a year later on July 2, 1964, our father, President Lyndon Johnson, signed the Civil Rights Act on Luci’s 17th birthday. It was the best birthday present anybody ever gave anybody.

President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas was lauded by four successor presidents as a Lincoln-esque groundbreaker for civil rights, but President Barack Obama also noted that Johnson also had long ...

A little more than 13 months later, President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. On Aug. 6, 1965, LBJ signed the Voting Rights Act, 43 years before the election of President Obama.

Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson at his desk in November 1957 Bettman via Getty Images On August 7, 1957, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson voted yea on the first civil rights bill ...

Lyndon Johnson's Fight for Civil Rights Forty years ago today, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a bill that changed the face of America.

Fifty years ago today, President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with a speech in which he drew a direct comparison between the bill he was signing and the legacy of ...

"In terms of actual legislation that brought about real change - the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Civil Rights Act of 1968 - Lyndon B. Johnson is the one who got it done, not Kennedy," Wilson said.

The 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act passed during Johnson’s presidency. LBJ in 1967 appointed Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court’s as its first black justice.

Robert Schenkkan’s “All the Way,” about Lyndon Johnson and the battle to pass the Civil Rights Act, won the 2014 Tony Award for best play. Its sequel, “The Great Society,” premieres in ...

One reason civil right legislation had not passed was Lyndon Johnson. After reaching the Senate, he quickly became the Democratic whip and one of the most powerful senators.. Prior to 1957, he had ...

This April, President Obama will pay tribute to predecessor Lyndon Johnson and to one of his most significant accomplishments: The Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Obama will visit Johnson's presidential library in Austin, Texas, to remedy what some Johnson admirers have described as a 'pattern of omission.' Obama to honor Lyndon Johnson and the Civil Rights ...