The historic law that promoted equality for all Americans. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act as Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders look on; President's ...

President Johnson was essential to the passage of the Civil Rights Act, Medicare ... There is a wonderful photo of Lyndon Johnson and Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas. Johnson is towering over ...

LBJ expresses solidarity with the civil rights struggle and asks Congress ... Washington, LBJ Library photo by Cecil Stoughton. Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, members of the Congress, I speak tonight ...

“Because of the civil rights movement, because of the laws President Johnson signed ... Since then, she’s been carrying a ...