President+Johnson


 * President Johnson**

-Served as vice president 1961-1963 -Elected as president in his own right in a landslide victory in 1964 -Forty years ago today, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which opened all public accommodations to all Americans regardless of whether they were colored or not. - It also established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission which abolished the racial discrimination in the working sector. -He got a job as a teacher in an only Mexican American school in 1982 because it seemed like education was their only hope. -He supported the 1954 Brown decision by the supreme court. -Despite him and the Democrat party being embarrassed by blacks thought he was doing a favor for, he still planned more civil rights legislations. -He was also involved in the second Civil Rights movement in 1960. -Johnson died after suffering his third heart attack, on January 22, 1973. He was 64 years old.
 * 36th president of the United States** from 1963-1969



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