History 2
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LyndonJohnsonLecture.pptThe Grassroots Activism, the Great Society, and Civil Rights
JFK Assassinated in Dallas in November 1963
LBJ Shared many of Kennedy’s Attributes but he was a different type of Democrat
Very Shrewd Politician: Black Book
The “Johnson Treatment”
Vision for America: Equality for all and a “Great Society”
LBJ picked up where JFK left off in the realm of civil rights
“Four Little Girls” – Bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church
Part of JFK’s Legacy
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
Freedom Summer, 1964: Voter Registration Drive
1965: Malcolm X is assassinated in Harlem
X’s Legacy
Black Radicalism becomes “Black Power”
Stokely Carmichael
Black Panther Party: Direct Action
“Monitoring” the Police
Different vision of African American protest
King Intensified his push for Civil Rights
Organizes a March from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery
Televised Protestors
The Result was the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Grassroots activism forced government to act
Organized Labor and the Fight for Civil Rights in the West
Chávez and Huerta were labor leaders and civil rights leaders
1965 Grape Strike
From the UFW to La Causa
Registered more than 100,000 new Mexican American Voters
Cultural Legacy: Chicano Movement
LBJ’s Great Society was the Product of this Grassroots activism
Focus on Cities, Environment, and Public Education
Barry Goldwater and the GOP
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Higher Education Act
Medicare/Medicaid
National Parks System Improved
“Lady Bird’s” Highway Beautification Project
Aid to Inner Cities
Endowment to the Arts
The Immigration Act of 1965: Officially Ends the National Origins Act of 1924
Becomes a “War on Poverty”
Job Corps
Upward Bound
VISTA
Community Action Program
Opposition to “Social” Programs and the Problem of Vietnam: Running out of Money
