Sixty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson stood with former President Harry S. Truman to sign it into law in Independence.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 ended the discriminatory practices against Black voters that were prevalent in many states.

Wednesday marks the 60th anniversary of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the ...

August 6 is the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. Let us honor the sacrifices of the past by recommitting ourselves ...

Provisions in the Voting Rights Act were set to expire initially after five years but were later renewed a total of five ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson addresses NASA employees at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas on March 1, 1968. The center would be renamed for Johnson on Feb. 19, 1973, a month after the ...

Then-Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson stands in the aisle of a commuter train and talks with passengers as it nears Greenwich, Conn., on the evening of Oct. 5, 1960. Nearly four years later, the then ...

George B. Parr, the South Texas political boss whom Salas served for a decade, shot himself to death in June 1975. Johnson is dead and so is his opponent.

He was considered one of Lyndon B. Johnson’s closest confidants during this time in office. We welcome your thoughts in a letter to the editor. See the guidelines and submit your letter here.

The Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library made these letters available on their online archive. The early ones are full of gushy back-and-forths and some mundane revelations.