Johnson’s “We Shall Overcome” isn’t a particularly short speech, but it is delivered with energy. It’s readily accessible. Read it, listen to it, watch it and see if you’re not ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in a ceremony in the President's Room near the Senate Chambers on Capitol Hill in Washington. Three years ago, the Supreme Court ...

Broadcast of Lyndon B. Johnson's “We Shall Overcome” speech, given during the civil-rights movement shortly after events in Selma, Alabama. Subscribe to The Nation Subscribe now for as little ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson's Special Address to Congress on Voting Rights; U.S. Capitol, Washington, LBJ Library photo by Cecil Stoughton. Address to Congress: We Shall Overcome March 15, 1965 ...

On March 15, 1965, as the nation reeled from the "Bloody Sunday" beatings of civil rights marchers in Selma, Ala., President Lyndon B. Johnson made a stirring call upon Congress to ensure the ...

"Because it is not just Negroes, but really it is all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice -- and we shall overcome." Johnson's speech came eight days after ...

“And we shall overcome.” Through what became known legendarily as “the Johnson Treatment”—wielding political capital, horse-trading, threatening, cajoling, flattering, whatever it took ...

Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States (November 22, 1963 – January 20, 1969), a position he assumed ...

Goodwin was a key aide and speechwriter for Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, ... Often called the "We Shall Overcome" speech for its repeated use of that phrase, ...

That's exactly what Lyndon Johnson does when he says, 'We shall overcome.' Wow." President Lyndon B. Johnson at the speaker's podium addressing a Joint Session of Congress urging the passage of ...

One of the great presidential speeches came a half-century ago Sunday, as President Lyndon Johnson urged Congress to pass voting rights legislation, and invoked an anthem of civil rights ...