Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act as Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders look on ... specially equipped to advise and assist them in coping with such problems.

LBJ expresses solidarity with the civil rights struggle and asks Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act. President Lyndon ... rights as americans. Many of them were brutally assaulted.

Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had already signed the Civil Rights act into law, and he said he expected to sign the Voting Rights Act shortly. The hard-fought ...

He delivered the keynote address at a ceremony in Austin celebrating the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Inside an auditorium at the LBJ Presidential Library on ...