Lyndon B. Johnson

Johnson meets with Sen. Richard Russell Photo: Yoichi R. Okamoto, 1963

Election of 1964

LBJ “Daisy Girl”

Barry Goldwater “Hearts” & “Nuts”

Great Society

Office of Economic Opportunity Operation Head Start Job Corps Neighborhood Youth Corps Upward Bound Model Cities Program

Great Society

Department of Housing and Urban Development

Department of Transportation Medicare Medicaid Elementary and Secondary

Education Act National Endowment for the Arts

Great Society

Water Quality Act Clean Air Act “Truth in Lending” “Truth in Advertising” Immigration Reform

Birmingham Campaign

Great Society

Voting Rights Act of 1965 Authorized federal intervention

Civil Rights Act of 1968 Housing and assembly focus

The Warren Court

Bond v. Floyd The New York Times v. Sullivan Roth v. United States Engel v. Vitale Gideon v. Wainwright Miranda v. Arizona Griswald v. Connecticut

The Cold War Continues

Israel NATO & France

Lennox Avenue Mural

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore – And then run?Does it stink like rotten meat?Or crust and sugar over – like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

Langston Hughes

…a dream deferred?

Legacy of the “Greatest Generation” Great Depression & WW II Liberal Consensus Economic Growth National Renewal

…a dream deferred?

Forgotten by the “American Dream” African-Americans Latinos American Indians Women Homosexuals

…a dream deferred?

Rejection of the “American Dream” Consumerism Militarism Conventional Morality Gender Identity

…a dream stolen?

John F. Kennedy – November 22, 1963

…a dream stolen?

Malcolm X – February 21, 1965

…a dream stolen?

Martin Luther King, Jr. – April 4, 1968

…a dream stolen?

Robert Kennedy – June 5, 1968

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our despair against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

Aeschylus

Forgotten: African - Americans

Modern Civil Rights Movement Direction

Direct Action v. Voter Registration Political Rights v. Human Rights

Registration v. Education Voting v. Working Elections v. Housing

Results Negotiated v. Absolute Use of Violence

…does it explode?

Race Riots Short Term Causes

Police Brutality Assassinations

Long Term Causes Institutionalized Racism Urban Poverty

Race Riots: Watts

Race Riots: Newark

Race Riots: Detriot

Race Riots: Washington, DC

Riots: ChicagoDemocratic National Convention

Forgotten: Black Power

Nation of Islam & Malcolm X

Forgotten: Latinos

Cesar Chavez National Farm Workers Association Si Se Puede or Yes we can.

Forgotten: American Indians

American Indian Movement (AIM)

Forgotten: Women

Rebirth of Feminism Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

Forgotten: Homosexuals

Stonewall Riots – Greenwich Village NYC

Rejection

“Hippies”

Rejection

Drugs

“Turn on, Tune in, and Drop out.”

Rejection

Haight-Ashbury – San Francisco

Rejection

Woodstock

Counterculture

In your school...

In America today…

Who has been forgotten by the dominant culture?

Who is rejecting the dominant culture?

How do we know?