Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
Biography:
"Representative and a Senator from Texas and a Vice President and 36th President of the United States; born on a farm near Stonewall, Gillespie County, Tex., on August 27, 1908; moved with his parents to Johnson City, in 1913; attended the public schools of Blanco County, Tex.; graduated from Southwest Texas State Teachers College at San Marcos in 1930; taught high school 1928-1931; served as secretary to Congressman Richard M. Kleberg in Washington, D.C., 1931-1935; attended the Georgetown University Law School, Washington, D.C., 1934; State director of the National Youth Administration of Texas 1935-1937; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Congress by special election, April 10, 1937, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James P. Buchanan; reelected to the five succeeding Congresses and served from April 10, 1937, to January 3, 1949; first Member of Congress to enlist in the armed forces after the Second World War began; served as lieutenant commander in the United States Navy 1941-1942; was not a candidate for renomination to the Eighty-first Congress in 1948; elected to the United States Senate in 1948 for the term commencing January 3, 1949; reelected in 1954 and again in 1960 for the term ending January 3, 1967; Democratic whip 1951-1953; minority leader 1953-1955; majority leader 1955-1961; chairman, Special Committee on the Senate Reception Room (Eighty-fourth Congress), Special Committee on Astronautics and Space (Eighty-fifth Congress), Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences (Eighty-fifth and Eighty-sixth Congresses); elected Vice President of the United States in November 1960, on the Democratic ticket with John F. Kennedy, for the term beginning January 20, 1961; resigned from the United States Senate January 3, 1961; on the death of President Kennedy was sworn in as President of the United States on November 22, 1963; elected President of the United States in 1964, for the term commencing January 20, 1965, and served until January 20, 1969; did not seek reelection in 1968; retired to his ranch near Johnson City, Tex.; died on January 22, 1973; lay in state in the Capitol Rotunda, January 24-25, 1973; interment in the family cemetery at the LBJ ranch; posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on June 9, 1980."--Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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Archival Collections and Reference Resources
- African American Odyssey (Library of Congress)
- African American Oral History Collection (University of Louisville University Archives and Records Center)
- Baldy Editorial Cartoons, 1946-1982, 1997: Clifford H. Baldowski Editorial Cartoons at the Richard B. Russell Library. (Digital Library of Georgia)
- A basket case / Baldy, [ca. 1957] (Editorial cartoons)
- --Confound it, I run into you everywhere I go! / Baldy, [1966 May 17]. (Editorial cartoons)
- --I'll just squeeze in here among old friends, if you don't mind! / Baldy, [1968]. (Editorial cartoons)
- --Listen to that engine!-- Wow, that's what I call speed! / Baldy, [1964 Aug. 15]. (Editorial cartoons)
- --This one belongs to me, Mr. President / Baldy, [1964 July 4] (Editorial cartoons)
- --We can not permit any part of America to become a jungle / Baldy, [1964 Aug. 14]. (Editorial cartoons)
- Black History Month 2004 : A Civil Rights Resource (C-SPAN)
- Catherine May Bedell Congressional Papers (Washington State University's Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections)
- The Civil Rights Era in the U.S. News & World Report Photographs Collection: Selected Images from the Collections of the Library of Congress (Library of Congress)
- Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive (University of Southern Mississippi Libraries)
- Community service of worship in observance of Brotherhood Week; February 21, 1964 (Text)
- Freedom vote ballot (Text)
- It was a cool day in August"; August 1964 (Reports)
- Letter, Dr. Israel Zwerling to President Lyndon B. Johnson; July 8, 1964 (Letters (correspondence))
- Photograph of a Rust College student at the Freedom House in Holly Springs, Mississippi; [n.d.] (Black-and-white photographs)
- Photograph of Rust College students at the Freedom House in Holly Springs, Mississippi; [n.d.] (Black-and-white photographs)
- Nashville Public Library Digital Collections Portal: Civil Rights (Nashville Public Library)
- Presidential Recordings of Lyndon B. Johnson Digital Edition (University of Virginia Press)
- Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century (Lyndon Baines Johnson Library)
- Jack Valenti's handwritten notes taken during a meeting between President Lyndon B. Johnson, Congressional leaders, and the attorney general (Notes)
- Memorandum from Larry O'Brien to President Lyndon B. Johnson concerning the Poverty Bill with handwritten notes from the President (Memorandums)
- Memorandum from Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey to President Lyndon B. Johnson (Memorandums)
- Photograph of members of the Warren Commission presenting their report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to President Lyndon Johnson (Color photographs)
- Photograph of President Lyndon B. Johnson meeting with Civil Rights leaders and others in the Cabinet Room (Black-and-white photographs)
- Photograph of President Lyndon B. Johnson meeting with Thurgood Marshall (Black-and-white photographs)
- Photograph of President Lyndon Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act as Martin Luther King, Jr., and other civil rights leaders look on in the Capitol Rotunda, Washington, DC (Black-and-white photographs)
- The President’s daily diary for August 6, 1965 (Diaries)
- President Lyndon Johnson delivers remarks at the signing ceremony for the Voting Rights Act in the Capitol Rotunda, Washington, DC, with a statue of Abraham Lincoln in the background (Black-and-white photographs)
- President Lyndon Johnson, standing behind a podium, delivers remarks at the signing ceremony for the Voting Rights Act in the Capitol Rotunda, Washington, DC (Color photographs)
- Radio and television remarks upon signing the Civil Rights bill (Speeches)
- Remarks in the Capitol Rotunda at the Signing of the Voting Rights Act, August 6, 1965 (Speeches)
- Telephone conversation from Lyndon B. Johnson to Bill Moyers on March 9, 1965 at 7:33 a.m. (Sound recordings)
- Telephone conversation from Lyndon B. Johnson to Martin Luther King, Jr. on January 15, 1965 at 12:06 p.m. (Sound recording)
- Telephone conversation from Lyndon B. Johnson to Nicholas Katzenbach, 12/14/1964, at 11:30 a.m. (Sound recordings)
- Transcript of Jack Valenti’s handwritten notes taken during a meeting between President Lyndon B. Johnson, Congressional Leaders, and the Attorney General. (Transcripts)
- Transcript of memorandum from Larry O'Brien to President Lyndon B. Johnson concerning the Poverty Bill with handwritten notes from the President (Memorandums)
- Transcript of memorandum from Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey to President Lyndon B. Johnson (Transcripts)
- Transcript of telephone conversation from Lyndon B. Johnson to Bill Moyers on March 9, 1965 at 7:33 a.m. (Sound recordings)
- Transcript of telephone conversation from Lyndon B. Johnson to Martin Luther King, Jr. on January 15, 1965 at 12:06 p.m. (Transcripts)
- Transcript of telephone conversation from Lyndon B. Johnson to Nicholas Katzenbach, 12/14/1964, at 11:30 a.m. (Transcripts)
- Transcript of the President’s daily diary for August 6, 1965 (Diaries)
- Voices of Freedom: The Virginia Civil Rights Movement (Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries)
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection (Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection)
- Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of activities organized for Poor People's Campaign participants visiting Atlanta and a Poor People's Campaign rally with speakers Coretta Scott King, Ralph D. Abernathy and Hosea Williams, Atlanta, Georgia, 1968 May 9 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. discussing an alleged Republican plot to encourage African Americans to write-in King's name in the presidential election during a press conference held in Atlanta, Georgia on 1964 November 2 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of a news report about continued segregation at the Lester Maddox Cafeteria, with comments by segregationist Lester Maddox and African American civil rights lawyer Donald Hollowell, Atlanta, Georgia, 1965 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of African American civil rights leaders including congressman Adam Clayton Powell and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, Washington, D.C., 1957 May 17 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of an Atlanta civil rights march protesting alleged police brutality in Selma, Alabama, Atlanta, Georgia, 1965 March 16 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of an interview with Robert Kennedy as he arrives in Atlanta, Georgia, 1967 September 29 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking about the work of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Chicago as well as current political parties, Atlanta, Georgia, 1965 June (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking to reporters about the upcoming presidential election and efforts by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to encourage African Americans to vote, Savannah, Georgia, 1964 October 3 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking to reporters after learning he has won the Nobel Peace Prize in Saint Joseph's Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, 1964 October 14 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking to reporters during the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's annual convention, Savannah, Georgia, 1964 October 1 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of H. Rap Brown predicting the onset of race war and announcing that Stokley Carmichael has been killed in Alabama, 1967 June 12 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of leaders of the Atlanta Summit Leadership Conference speaking to reporters at a press conference held in Atlanta Georgia, 1963 November 24 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of leaders of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom meeting with president John F. Kennedy at the White House, Washington, D.C., 1963 August 28 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Lester Maddox promoting states' rights and segregation as he speaks to a white audience in Americus, Georgia, 1965 July 29 (Moving images)