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, ...

Lyndon B. Johnson wanted his presidency to be focused on civil rights and his domestic programs started with the “Great ...

Lyndon Johnson hired Geri Whittington as his secretary because she was the most qualified. She was also the first Black woman ...

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 ...

Lyndon Johnson would likely recognize the Republicans today who pledge unflinching loyalty to President Donald Trump, in the hope of climbing the political ladder. Johnson was on the opposite side ...

But Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United ... and grew even stronger when he became president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Johnson's first formal state dinner was ...

President Trump's latest DEI directive repeals an executive order on nondiscrimination signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965, which explicitly prohibited segregated facilities in federal ...

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

Soon after announcing his plan ... not unlike that faced long ago under different circumstances by President Lyndon B. Johnson," Doggett said. "Today’s courageous action caps decades of selfless ...

"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson. In his first years ... winning a Silver Star in the South Pacific. After six terms in the ...