Among the thousands who fought for voting rights during the 1960s civil rights movement was Capitola resident Maria Gitin, ...

Early last year, U.S. Reps. Joaquín Castro of Texas and Jimmy Gomez of California asked the CIA and the FBI to release their ...

Here's everything you need to know about the upcoming holiday, why we celebrate it and why it's more than just a long-weekend ...

On Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, declared an “unconditional war on poverty in ...

Carter’s impulse to heal and seek peace was evident on his second day in office, when he pardoned all who had left the ...

When he showed up at the Chicago Tribune one day in early 1976, James Earl Carter Jr. was announced by one of our young ...

His successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, signed it into law on July 2, 1964. It achieved many of the aims of a Reconstruction-era law, the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which was passed but soon overturned.

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States and 76th governor of Georgia, died Sunday at 100 years old.

When he showed up at the Chicago Tribune one day in early 1976, James Earl Carter, Jr., was announced by one of our young newsroom copy clerks as “that governor from Georgia who thinks he can run for ...

For Lyndon Johnson’s 200 million countrymen ... Hope & Anger. In the area of civil rights, Johnson fell victim to his earlier successes. It was a classic case of anticipation outpacing achievement.

The holiday is celebrated on the third Monday of every January, in accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, which was signed into law by former President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968.

Women reflect on the toll of the Eaton Fire and the destruction it brought to their community of Altadena, a multicultural ...