The year 1964 was momentous. It's the year that the youngest baby boomers were born, for one thing. (The oldest were born in ...

Presidential signings once meant something. Not all of them, of course; some were as thin and inert as the paper upon which they were signed ...

Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 sought to address systemic racism and prejudice that permeated American society at the time. It was the result of years ...

Rossein said some people might have confused Johnson’s 1965 order with the 1964 Civil Rights Act he signed into law that went into effect July 5, 1965. That law created the Equal Employment ...

In July 1964, the Republican party nominated Senator Barry Goldwater as the candidate to unseat President Lyndon Johnson. The ultra-conservative Arizona senator, whose radical right-wing rantings ...