Johnson and His Great Society
KEY CONCEPTS
• The civil rights movements helped black Americans, but they were still relegated
to a second-class status economically, politically, and socially.
• The presidential administrations in the postwar decades expanded the size and
scope of government.
• Liberalism reshaped social, economic, gender, racial, and political relations.
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LBJ’s Domestic Policies
• Election of 1964
• LBJ’s Great Society
programs
– Economic Opportunity
Act 1964
– Elementary and
Secondary Education Act
1965
– Medicare Act of 1965
LBJ’s Domestic Policies
• Cabinet-level agencies
– Dept of Housing and
Urban Development
(HUD)
– Dept of Transportation
(1966)
• New Amendments
– 24th Amendment (1964)
– 25th Amendment (1967)
LBJ’s Domestic Policies
• Civil rights initiatives
– Civil Rights Act (1964)
– Voting Rights Act (1965)
Supreme Court Reforms
• Warren Court
1. Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
2. Gideon v. Wainright
(1963)
3. Escobedo v. Illinois
(1964)
4. Miranda v. Arizona
(1966)
Emergence of Black Power
• De facto segregation
• De jure segregation
• Racial Riots
– Watts riots (Aug 1965)
– Kerner Commission
(1968)
– Great Society funds get
redirected
New Leaders Voice Discontent
• Black Power
– Stokely Carmichael
• Malcolm X
• Black Panthers
– Huey Newton and Bobby
Seale
Ethnic Activism Expands
• United Farm Workers
– Cesar Chavez
• Native Americans
– American Indian
Movement (AIM)
• Trail of Broken Treaties
• Wounded Knee
– Alcatraz
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MLK & X Venn Diagram
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/story/11_noi.html#video
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