LBJ expresses solidarity with the civil rights struggle and asks Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act. President Lyndon B. Johnson's Special Address to Congress on Voting Rights; U.S. Capitol, ...
President Lyndon Johnson and his wife Lady Bird (seen on the right) attended the July 19, 1965, memorial service for Adlai E. Stevenson II, which was held at the Unitarian Church on E. Emerson Street.