A young Johnson, then a student at Southwest Texas State Teachers College, ... Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as Martin Luther King Jr. looks on.

Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th President of the United States and the architect of some of the most significant federal social welfare programs like Medicare and Medicaid, died fifty years ago on Jan ...

Instinctively, Moyers, a longtime protege and former aide of Lyndon B. Johnson, raced off to a chartered twin-engine Cessna and flew to Dallas; in mid-trip, he heard a radio announcer declare ...

Lyndon B. Johnson became the 36th President of the United States after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963; Johnson ran in his own right in 1964, winning in a landslide.

On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the landmark law, saying he hoped to “eliminate the last vestiges of injustice” for Black Americans.