Lyndon B. Johnson

President Lyndon B Johnson discusses the Voting Rights Act with Martin Luther King Jr. at the White House in 1965.
Ideas

The Dirty Truth About White Liberal Racism

We may have pushed desegregation in our laws, but it's clear many white Democrats still haven't fully embraced a desegregated society in their minds. Six scholars explain why.

President Lyndon B. Johnson with some members of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, also known as the Kerner Commission, in the Cabinet Room of the White House on July 29th, 1967.
Social Justice

The Prescient Warnings of the Kerner Commission

In his new book, historian Steven M. Gillon revisits the presidential commission created to investigate the riots of 1967.