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 ...

On the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, politicians should follow LBJ’s way April 9, 2014 More than 11 years ago History offers a rough kind of justice.

Obama will deliver the keynote address of the three-day summit that commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act and Johnson's role in enacting it.

The Civil Rights Act made it possible for Johnson to smash Jim Crow. The Voting Rights Act made the U.S. government accountable to its black citizens and a true democracy for the first time.

Hours after the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed the House of Representatives on July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson entered the East Room of the White House. Dressed in a black suit ...

Yesterday, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act 1964, President Obama delivered a speech at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, honoring his ...

On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. President Johnson's calls leading up to Congress passing the legislation, and on the day he signed the bill into law.

Lyndon Johnson's presidential record has long been overshadowed by the failed war in Vietnam. But the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act is leading to a reassessment of his accomplishments.

On Thursday in Austin, Texas, President Obama delivered the keynote address at the LBJ Presidential Library’s Civil Rights Summit marking the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights ...

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.

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.

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 ...