President Donald Trump announced over the weekend that he would be releasing long-sought classified documents pertaining to ...

When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had already signed the Civil Rights act into law, and he said he expected to sign the Voting Rights Act ...

John F. Kennedy was killed by Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon, new shocking documents have revealed. Following the recent ...

By revoking Executive Order 11246, Donald Trump has erased key civil rights protections for federal contractors.

Lyndon B. Johnson stood before a vast sea of another President's fellow townspeople last night and told them solemnly that he intends to "carry on the spirit, the ideals and the programs begun by ...

In the final days of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration, his Interior Department pulled a fast one on him, renaming ...

Born: August 27, 1908, in Stonewall, Texas... Lyndon Johnson was the first president to appoint an African American to the Supreme Court. On June 13, 1967, Johnson named Thurgood Marshall, the ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Nov. 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was shot to death in a motorcade in Dallas.

On June 11, 1963, President John F. Kennedy addressed the nation on the most pressing domestic issue of the day: the struggle to affirm civil rights for all Americans. His administration had ...