Part 1 Johnson’s 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. Ch. 38 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)
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