“but neither can we forget the lateness of his conversion.” Broadcast of Lyndon B. Johnson's “We Shall Overcome” speech, given during the civil-rights movement shortly after events in ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson barked into the two-way radio ... "It's OK, Mr. President. I think you can handle it." Johnson hung up abruptly, careening down the concrete ramp at Granite Shoals ...

Born: August 27, 1908, in Stonewall, Texas... Lyndon Johnson was the first president to appoint an African American to the Supreme Court. On June 13, 1967, Johnson named Thurgood Marshall ...

Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the presidency after the assassination of President John Kennedy in November 1963. Johnson declared a “war on poverty” in his 1964 election campaign, ...

Dedicated to the 36th president of the United States, the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential ... about the president, you can learn about former first lady Lady Bird Johnson in both a gallery about ...

One president emerged as a pivotal figure in the progression of the Civil Rights Movement and that was Lyndon B. Johnson ...

"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson. In his first years of office he obtained passage of one of the most extensive legislative ...