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April 17, 2012April 17, 2012
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
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What do you What do you know about know about President President Johnson?Johnson?
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LBJ Takes Office, LBJ Takes Office, 19631963
November 22, 1963
LBJ sworn in aboard Air Force 1
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"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?
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"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?
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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
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“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.”
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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
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Election of 1964Election of 1964
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Thesis DevelopmentThesis Development
How did the African American Civil Rights
movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s address the
failures of Reconstruction?