- 8 Major Accomplishments Of Lyndon B Johnson - HRF
Lyndon B Johnson showed the way and proved he was ahead of his peers when he appointed the first African American judge, Thurgood Marshall, in the Supreme Court
- 50 Years Ago, Lyndon Johnson Delivered The Most Perfectly . . .
Fifty years ago on Sunday, President Lyndon Johnson stood before a joint session of Congress and offered his response to the moral atrocity that occurred a week earlier, when civil rights
- Selected Speeches and Messages - LBJ Library
Browse a selected number of speeches and messages made by Lyndon B Johnson from his pre-presidential to his post-presidential years
- Lyndon B. Johnson - Wikipedia
As part of these efforts, Johnson signed the Social Security Amendments of 1965, which resulted in the creation of Medicare and Medicaid
- Remarks Upon Signing the Civil Rights Act | The American . . .
In the Civil Rights Act of 1965, we affirmed through law for every citizen in this land the most basic right of democracy--the right of a citizen to vote in an election in his country In the five States where the Act had its greater impact, Negro voter registration has already more than doubled
- President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Message to Congress on Voting . . .
On March 15, Johnson appeared before a televised, joint session of Congress to deliver a stirring, historic speech calling on Congress to pass a voting rights bill
- Lyndon B. Johnson: A Resource Guide - Library of Congress
On June 24, 1961, the public learned of President John Kennedy‘s letter assigning Vice President Lyndon Johnson the high priority task of unifying the U S satellite programs
- Lyndon B. Johnson - Top 10 Greatest Speeches - TIME
In the wake of the ugly violence perpetuated against civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama in 1965, Johnson adapted the "We Shall Overcome" mantra in this call for the country to end racial
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