Editing Lyndon B. Johnson (section)

===Fair Housing Act===
{{See also|Civil Rights Act of 1968}}
The [[Fair Housing Act]], a component of the [[Civil Rights Act of 1968]], outlawed several forms of [[housing discrimination]] and effectively allowed many African Americans to move to the suburbs.<ref name="mfletcher1">{{cite news|last1=Fletcher|first1=Michael|title=Great Society at 50: Prince George's illustrates domestic programs' impact — and limits|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/great-society-at-50-prince-georges-illustrates-programs-transformative-legacy-and-its-limits/2014/05/18/df5e3eda-cb25-11e3-95f7-7ecdde72d2ea_story.html|access-date=August 21, 2016|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=May 18, 2014}}</ref> Johnson submitted a bill to Congress in April 1966 that barred house owners from refusing to enter into agreements on the basis of race; the bill immediately garnered opposition from many of the Northerners who had supported the last two major civil rights bills.<ref>Zelizer (2015), pp. 235–236.</ref> Though a version of the bill passed the House, it failed to win Senate approval, marking Johnson's first major legislative defeat.<ref>Zelizer (2015), pp. 244–246.</ref> The law gained new impetus after the April 4, 1968, [[assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.]], and the [[King assassination riots|civil unrest]] across the country that followed.<ref name=Kotz2005P417>{{cite book|last=Kotz|first=Nick|title=Judgment days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the laws that changed America|year=2005|publisher=Houghton Mifflin|location=Boston|isbn=0-618-08825-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/judgmentdayslynd00kotz/page/417 417]|chapter=14. Another Martyr|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/judgmentdayslynd00kotz/page/417}}</ref> The bill passed Congress on April 10 and was quickly signed into law by Johnson.<ref name=Kotz2005P417/><ref>{{cite news|last=Risen|first=Clay|title=The Unmaking of the President: Lyndon Johnson believed that his withdrawal from the 1968 presidential campaign would free him to solidify his legacy|url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/president-lbj.html?c=y&page=3|access-date=July 18, 2012|newspaper=Smithsonian Magazine|pages=3, 5 and 6 in online version|date=April 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130104181743/http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/president-lbj.html?c=y&page=3|archive-date=January 4, 2013}}</ref>