Lyndon B. Johnson was vital in passing key pieces of civil rights legislation. Here we look at that legislation and ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act as Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders look on; President's Room, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC. LBJ Library, photo by ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had already signed the Civil Rights act into law, and he said he ...

President Trump revoked a 1965 rule that prohibited federal contractors from discriminating against employees or job applicants.

The pen was one of the pens President Lyndon B. Johnson used to sign the 1964 Civil Rights Act. L x W (pen): 6 1/4 x 1/2 x 1/2 in. (15.9 x 1.3 x 1.3 cm) L x W (box): 7 1/8 x 1 1/8 x 5/8 in. (18.1 x ...

Black History Month is an annual observance centered on celebrating the history, heritage, cultural influence and social ...

President Kennedy was an open supporter of civil rights. Examples of Kennedy’s actions are: Lyndon B Johnson had been Kennedy’s vice president. When he took up the role of president ...

But legal assaults on established civil rights law have been increasing for a while now, fostered or ignored by both Republican and Democratic politicians. President Lyndon B. Johnson hands a pen to ...

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) was adopted in 1979 by the United Nations General Assembly.