Video: 'The President: April 1968. MP895.' (Apr. 11, 1968, at 22:31)

(Thursday, April 11, 1968, 5:00 p.m. EST; during the African-American civil rights movement (1954–1968)) — One week after the assassination of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson today signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1968, also known as the Fair Housing Act, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.

The bill had been approved by the U.S. House of Representatives, 250 to 172, on Apr. 10, after clearing the U.S. Senate, 71-20, on Mar. 11, 1968.