One president emerged as a pivotal figure in the progression of the Civil Rights Movement and that was Lyndon B. Johnson.

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 ...

"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson ... unrest and rioting in black ghettos troubled the Nation. President Johnson steadily ...