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 ...

How LBJ Saved the Civil Rights Act Fifty years later, new accounts of its fraught passage reveal the era's real hero—and it isn’t the Supreme Court.

As the nation's current president and three of his predecessors gathered this week at the University of Texas for an LBJ Library conference celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil ...

Why was Bryan Cranston in Austin? Bryan Cranston was invited to read an excerpt from President Johnson’s speech delivered on the radio upon signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on July 2.

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.

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 ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act as Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders look on; President's Room, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC. LBJ Library, photo by ...

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… ...

AUSTIN — On Monday, President Joe Biden will deliver remarks commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin.

President Joe Biden is set to deliver a major speech on civil rights and democracy at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin next Monday, the same day the Republican National Convention begins in ...

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 ...

Why was Bryan Cranston in Austin? Bryan Cranston was invited to read an excerpt from President Johnson’s speech delivered on the radio upon signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on July 2. The ...