... Faulkner Street. He was named David Holt Southwick. 50 years ago - Advertisement - (1959) Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, D-Texas, introduced a four-point civil rights program and it was criticized both as too much and too little ...

... Massachusetts was the likeliest choice to lead the Democrats. Coming up fast behind Kennedy, in his opinion, were Sens. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota and Stuart Symington of Missouri. Dr. Ann R. Poindexter began her ...

... This will mean the dismissal of about 168 workers this week. 50 years ago (1959) - Advertisement - U.S. Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson appeared to be emerging as one of the most likely to influence the choice of the 1960 Democratic nominee for president ...

... day of 2008. There are 264 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On April 11, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which included the Fair Housing Act, a week after the assassination ...

... are 306 days left in the year. This is Leap Day. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 29, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson's National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (also known as the Kerner Commission) warned that racism was ...

... just before the New Hampshire primary as saying King's dream of racial equality was realized only when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Some black leaders have criticized that remark as suggesting Johnson deserved ...

... for president at the Republican National Convention in Chicago. In 1967, in the wake of urban rioting, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to assess the causes of the violence, the same day black militant H. Rap Brown ...

... effects. In 1962, Jamaica became an independent dominion within the British Commonwealth. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. In 1978, Pope Paul VI died at Castel Gandolfo at age 80. In 1986, William J. Schroeder ...

... was sworn in as the first mayor-commissioner of the District of Columbia. (He'd been appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson). In 1974, first lady Betty Ford underwent a mastectomy at Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Maryland, following ...

... She said that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was great, of course, but that, after all, it took a president, Lyndon B. Johnson, to get civil rights legislation enacted. Let me hazard a prediction: Generally speaking, white people beheld ...