Newswise — FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – There was a time in American history when politics worked, said Randall B. Woods, a University of Arkansas historian who has written a new book about President Lyndon ...
On May 22, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson addressed a crowd of more than 80,000 at the University of Michigan’s football stadium in Ann Arbor. Having taken the oath of office just six months earlier ...
In 1965 President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society Program enacted plans for education, disease and a wide range of other social programs. It dismantled Jim Crow laws in the south, ensured voting rights ...