Big Date In History

Seventy Years Ago, in 1945:

'Trane enlists.

Also, the end begins.

Fifty Years Ago, in 1965:

L.B.J. signs Voting Rights Act

President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act as Martin Luther King Jr. and
other civil rights leaders look on. LBJ Library photo by Yoichi Okamoto, A1030-8a.

President Johnson gives a pen to Martin Luther King, Jr., as Rosa Parks (at right) watches.