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Checking the facts on claims about your rights

By W. Gardner Selby
April 8, 2014

Presidents and many others gather in Austin this week for a summit focused on Lyndon B. Johnson and the landmark civil-rights laws he ushered into place including the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

In our four years in action, we’ve fact-checked some claims about your rights.

They’re stacked to the right–alongside fact checks mentioning Johnson or the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Should President Barack Obama or any of his predecessors make a curious claim at the LBJ Civil Rights Summit that bears checking, we’re eager to hear about it.

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