https://padlet.com/wmayfi2240/2uux0p2fqnfv en-us 2017-11-16 16:35:10 UTC 2026-04-16 05:47:05 UTC hello@padlet.com wmayfi2240 https://padlet.com/wmayfi2240/2uux0p2fqnfv/wish/207765393 36th President of the United States]]> 2017-11-16 16:41:17 UTC https://padlet.com/wmayfi2240/2uux0p2fqnfv/wish/207765393 wmayfi2240 https://padlet.com/wmayfi2240/2uux0p2fqnfv/wish/207767341 Lyndon Baines Johnson was born on August 27, 1908, near the central Texas community of Johnson City]]> 2017-11-16 16:44:28 UTC https://padlet.com/wmayfi2240/2uux0p2fqnfv/wish/207767341 wmayfi2240 https://padlet.com/wmayfi2240/2uux0p2fqnfv/wish/207769885 He was the first of five children of Sam Ealy Johnson Jr., a farmer, businessman and state legislator,and his wife, Rebekah Baines Johnson Young Johnson graduated from Southwest State Teachers College
( Texas State University) in 1930. To pay for his education, he taught for disadvantaged Mexican-American Students in Texas.]]> 2017-11-16 16:48:34 UTC https://padlet.com/wmayfi2240/2uux0p2fqnfv/wish/207769885 wmayfi2240 https://padlet.com/wmayfi2240/2uux0p2fqnfv/wish/207774690 In 1931, Johnson moved to Washington, D.C to serve as congressional secretary. On, November 17, 1934, he married Claudia Alta ¨ lady bird¨ Taylor, a fellow Texan with whom he later has two daughters, Lynda and Luci. Lady Bird Johnson, a soft spoken but well-educated woman from an affluent family, became a critical part of Johnsonś political success.]]> 2017-11-16 16:56:34 UTC https://padlet.com/wmayfi2240/2uux0p2fqnfv/wish/207774690 wmayfi2240 https://padlet.com/wmayfi2240/2uux0p2fqnfv/wish/207779825 Johnson´s political career began in the early 1937, when he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat. He reported for active duty in 1941 and serves in the U.S Navy as a lieutenant commander until all members of congress in the military were recalled to Washington in the summer of 1942. In 1960, John F. Kennedy, the Democratic Presidential nominee, invites Johnson to be his Vice-presidential running mate. On November 22,1963, Kennedy was shot and killed while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. Johnson was sworn in a president later that day aboard Air Force One  ]]> 2017-11-16 17:05:42 UTC https://padlet.com/wmayfi2240/2uux0p2fqnfv/wish/207779825 wmayfi2240 https://padlet.com/wmayfi2240/2uux0p2fqnfv/wish/208118100 November 22, 1963 - January 20, 1969]]> 2017-11-17 14:33:22 UTC https://padlet.com/wmayfi2240/2uux0p2fqnfv/wish/208118100 wmayfi2240 https://padlet.com/wmayfi2240/2uux0p2fqnfv/wish/208120446 "The stakes are too high for you to stay home"]]> 2017-11-17 14:37:11 UTC https://padlet.com/wmayfi2240/2uux0p2fqnfv/wish/208120446 wmayfi2240 https://padlet.com/wmayfi2240/2uux0p2fqnfv/wish/208122497 Hubert Humphrey ]]> 2017-11-17 14:40:34 UTC https://padlet.com/wmayfi2240/2uux0p2fqnfv/wish/208122497 wmayfi2240 https://padlet.com/wmayfi2240/2uux0p2fqnfv/wish/208123587 Democratic Party ]]> 2017-11-17 14:42:18 UTC https://padlet.com/wmayfi2240/2uux0p2fqnfv/wish/208123587 wmayfi2240 https://padlet.com/wmayfi2240/2uux0p2fqnfv/wish/208124928 On this day, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law the historic Civil Rights Act in Nationally televised ceremony at the White House. In the Landmark 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional. The 10 years that followed saw great strides for the African American civil rights movement, as non-violent demonstrations won thousands of supporters to the cause. Landmarks in the struggle included the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, sparked by the refusal of Alabama resident Rosa Parks to give up her seat on a city bus to a white woman and the "I Have a Dream" speech by Martin Luther King Jr. at a rally thousands in Washington D.C in 1963. In addition, the bill laid important groundwork for a number of other pieces of legislation-including the Voting Right Act of 1965, which set strict rules for protecting the rights of African Americans to vote , that have since been used to enforce equal rights for women as well as all minorities. ]]> 2017-11-17 14:44:40 UTC https://padlet.com/wmayfi2240/2uux0p2fqnfv/wish/208124928 wmayfi2240 https://padlet.com/wmayfi2240/2uux0p2fqnfv/wish/208203299 - In January 1964, he declared war on poverty. in his first state of the Union address, Johnson declared an "unconditional war" on poverty in the United States , announcing that "our aim is not only to relieve the symptoms of poverty 
- Johnson nearly was killed in World War 2. Johnson entered the Navel Reserves while still a congressman, and on his only bombing run in the South Pacific, he boarded a plane called the Walbash Cannonball for his mission. A last-second trip off the plane to use a bathroom saved Johnson's life.]]> 2017-11-17 17:02:44 UTC https://padlet.com/wmayfi2240/2uux0p2fqnfv/wish/208203299