Johnson’s approval ratings, once at 70 percent in mid-1965, dropped dramatically to below 40 percent by 1967. Major Acts: Lyndon B. Johnson implemented the Civil Rights Act of 1964, prohibiting ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Princeton University history and public affairs professor Julian Zelizer talked about the assassination of President John Kennedy, the event that led ...

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 ...

In what some historians consider one of the best political speeches of the 20th century, former President Lyndon B. Johnson, ...