AUSTIN (Talk1370.com) -- President Joe Biden will visit Austin next week, set to deliver remarks at the LBJ Presidential Library to mark the 60th anniversary of 1964's Civil Rights Act.
Biden's visit to Central Texas will be the start of a three day trip, before two stops in Las Vegas - one at the NAACP's national convention on July 16, and an appearance at the UnidosUS annual conference on July 17.
The Monday appearance will come on the same day that the Republican National Convention gets underway in Milwaukee.
The trip and planned speeches come as Biden continues to face criticism for his June 27 debate performance against Donald Trump, as well as his performance during an interview with ABC News that aired during prime time Friday night.
U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) was the first of a growing cadre of House Democrats calling on Biden to step away from the presidential race. The 81-year old Biden would be 86 years old by the end of a potential second term.
On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law, barring discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin.
In 2014, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Act, presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter visited the LBJ Library for a three-day Civil Rights Summit.