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Goal: Goal: Assess the impact of LBJ’s domestic policies.

HW/Reminders:HW/Reminders:Read Ch. 29Exam (Cold War-Present)—Tuesday, April 24AP Exam—May 11

What do you What do you know about know about President President Johnson?Johnson?

LBJ Takes Office, LBJ Takes Office, 19631963

November 22, 1963

LBJ sworn in aboard Air Force 1

"This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor.“

~Lyndon JohnsonWhat is Johnson’s message?

"We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We have talked for a hundred years or more. It is time now to write the next chapter -- and to write in the books of law.“

What do you think Johnson’s stance is on Civil Rights?

LBJ & Civil RightsLBJ & Civil Rights

• Lobbied for Civil Rights Act of 1964– Outlawed discrimination based on person’s

race, color, religion or gender– Prohibited discrimination in employment &

public facilities • Equal Employment Opportunity

Commission (EEOC):enforced employment clause of Civil Rights Act

• Voting Rights Act of 1965• Also signed acts that banned discrimination

in housing & extended voting rights to Native Americans

“We have a right to expect a job to provide food for our families, a roof over their head, clothes for their body and with your help and with God's help, we will have it in America! Thank you.”

LBJ’s “War on Poverty”LBJ’s “War on Poverty”• Economic Opportunity Act: $1 billion for

poverty relief• Project Head Start: early schooling for

underprivileged children• Upward Bound: education opportunities for

underprivileged high school students• Job Corps: trained unskilled for better jobs• Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA):

domestic Peace Corps• Legal Services for the Poor• Department of Housing and Urban

Development (HUD): federal aid to low-income apartment renters, built federal housing projects

Election of 1964Election of 1964

Thesis DevelopmentThesis Development

How did the African American Civil Rights

movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s address the

failures of Reconstruction?