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5 days ago · On January 12, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson sent Congress a forceful education message proposing “that we declare a national goal of Full Educational Opportunity.”. Further, he asserted, “Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take.”.
4 days ago · Description. In January, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson met with civil rights leaders and told them that he would push for a law protecting voting rights after Congress passed an education bill and Medicare. Civil rights leaders refused to wait. After they were violently attacked on March 7 during a peaceful protest march in Selma, Alabama ...
3 days ago · President Johnson delivered a speech titled “The American Promise” to a joint session of Congress on March 15, 1965. In the speech, Johnson outlined his plans for supporting voting rights, stating, “There is no moral issue. It is wrong—deadly wrong—to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is no ...
4 days ago · Humanities Texas. July/August 2008. In the following excerpts from a 1965 interview, President Lyndon B. Johnson reminisces about his experiences as a classroom teacher. While doing so, he also emphasizes the importance of universal education and the rewards of the teaching profession. The complete transcript of the interview, which was ...
5 days ago · November 22: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson assumes the presidency. 1964. July 2: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is signed into law by President Johnson, outlawing discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
4 days ago · President Lyndon B. Johnson (seated, far right) speaks to assembled crowd; his first schoolteacher, Kate Deadrich Loney, is seated on his right at the Junction School, Johnson City, Texas. Cotulla, Texas, schoolchildren and their parents joined the president.
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3 days ago · e. Lyndon B. Johnson 's tenure as the 36th president of the United States began on November 22, 1963, upon the assassination of president John F. Kennedy, and ended on January 20, 1969. He had been vice president for 1,036 days when he succeeded to the presidency. Johnson, a Democrat from Texas, ran for and won a full four-year term in the 1964 ...
