President Lyndon B. Johnson and Martin Luther King Jr. once visited Juanita Craft in her 1,300-square-foot South Dallas home ...

President Donald Trump's orders on civil rights are a stunning blow to America’s 60-year fight against discrimination.

John F. Kennedy, the 35th U.S. president, was assassinated on November 22, 1963, at the age of 46. His successor, Lyndon B.

President Lyndon B. Johnson barked into the two-way radio: "One to Mike, One to Mike!" Secret Service Agent Mike Howard, riding behind the President's aqua vehicle in a more sedate station wagon ...

The historic law that promoted equality for all Americans. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act as Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders look on; President's ...

Born: August 27, 1908, in Stonewall, Texas... Lyndon Johnson was the first president to appoint an African American to the Supreme Court. On June 13, 1967, Johnson named Thurgood Marshall ...

For Lyndon Johnson’s 200 million ... s hopes of ever succeeding Johnson on his own. Democrats abandoned the President in droves, forming Dump-L.B.J. movements or rallying behind Gene McCarthy ...

For many Americans, the presidency of Lyndon Johnson is a distant memory marked by tragedy—the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy, the Vietnam War, the assassination of Martin ...

Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the presidency after the assassination of President John Kennedy in November 1963. Johnson declared a “war on poverty” in his 1964 election campaign, ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson informed the nation last night that he has ordered a total halt of bombing of North Vietnam. The television announcement came after an hour-and-a-half White House ...

"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson. In his first years of office he obtained passage of one of the most extensive legislative ...