Past Documents

By 1964, Vietnam had been torn by international and civil war for decades. U.S. military support for South Vietnam had

Originally established to provide services and benefits to the veterans of World War II, the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944,

The Civil Rights Act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on July 2, 1964, prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal. This document was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction.