The Civil Rights Act turns 50 this year, and a wave of fine books accompanies the semicentennial. Ackerman’s is the most ambitious; it is the third volume in an ongoing series on American ...

Eight months later, on July 2, after the defeat of the longest filibuster in Senate history, Johnson signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act into law. LBJ and his Senate allies, especially Minnesota’s ...

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.

Regarding Scott Paulo’s letter quoting Lyndon Baines Johnson, I have some more interesting LBJ quotes. Concerning the 1957 Civil Rights Act, LBJ told Mississippi Senator James Eastland, “List… ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson at the speaker's podium addressing a Joint Session of Congress urging the passage of the Voting Rights Act on March 15, 1965. Photo: Cecil Stoughton/LBJ Library ...

American actor and filmmaker Bryan Cranston spoke at the anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 at the LBJ Presidential Library. advertisement. Austin American-Statesman.

Civil Rights Act of 1964 July 2, 1964. Document Number: PL 88-352. 88th Congress, H. R. 7152. An Act. To enforce the constitutional right to vote, to confer jurisdiction upon the district courts ...

On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, one of the most important civil rights achievements in the nation’s history, the AP noted.

The White House-sponsored event, which will commemorate the 60th anniversary of then-President Lyndon Johnson's signing of the Civil Rights Act on July 2, 1964, will be Biden's first trip to Texas ...

Watch: Bryan Cranston reads excerpt from LBJ's speech. After a short film on Presidential Remarks on Civil Rights and a heartfelt music performance by the Houston-Tillotson University Concert ...

President Joe Biden spoke on Monday at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, to mark the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. Biden, who has less than six months left in his ...