The historic city of Selma, Alabama, is preparing to welcome thousands of visitors for the 60th anniversary commemoration of “Bloody Sunday” and the subsequent Selma-to-Montgomery ...

Kennedy launched a fundraising initiative, and his successor, President Lyndon B. Johnson ... Kennedy Center officials say the cancellations were initiated before the change in leadership. For spring ...

Named for its co-founder Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Johnson (wife of President Lyndon B. Johnson), the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center is the place to visit if you're a flower enthusiast.

A Secret Service agent, he leaped onto the president’s limousine in Dallas in 1963 and was credited with saving the first ...

(WIB) – For decades, Title I funding has been a financial backbone for schools serving low-income and predominantly Black students, helping pay for things like after-school tutoring. But now, those ...

These programs expanded on the Civil Rights Act, signed in 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson, outlawing employment ... director of the Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy at ...

Kennedy launched a fundraising initiative, and his successor, President Lyndon B. Johnson, signed into law a 1964 bill renaming the project the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.

Education in America has changed radically since the nation's founding. The Department of Education has faced opposition ...

Medicaid, which turns 60 this summer, was created as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Great Society” strategy ...

By the late 1860s, the common school movement, which advocated for free, universal, state-funded education, had been growing in the North for decades, according to the Center on Education Policy.

including one that reversed a landmark executive order signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson that directed federal contractors to take “affirmative action” to end discrimination at their firms.