As long as we've got you in a legislative mood, check out Johnson's 1964 civil rights legislation.While a voting rights section rides along the beginning of this legal document as well, most of thi...

While Kennedy didn't get around to passing any legislation himself before he met his untimely demise, the Civil Rights Address did provide the lightning rod for LBJ to get the kind of traction he d...

Of course, in turn, JFK's rhetoric in his Civil Rights Address carries the unmistakable thrust of this famous and eloquent 1963 letter. Seriously: take a second to check out the whole thing. To say...

Since we're spending so much time talking about the bill, we should probably also take a peek at what LBJ had to say about the bill.At its heart, hisspeech digs back to the promises made to the Ame...