Domestic 1960’s

1. Domestic 1960’s JFK, LBJ, NIXON

2. Society • Civil Rights Protests • Anti-Vietnam Protests • Pro-Vietnam Protests • Culture of drugs • Change in Music • Shift in Society

3. JFK Civil Rights movement: Started by JFK a. Voting Rights b. Sent Marshalls for Freedom Riders/and college students c. Promoted equality and education d. Sister Lived in Jefferson, Wisconsin e. Promoted Metacare

4. LBJ The Great Society • War on Poverty: forty programs that were intended to eliminate poverty by improving living conditions and enabling people to lift themselves out of the cycle of poverty. Education: sixty separate bills that provided for new and better-equipped classrooms, minority scholarships, and low-interest student loans.Medicare & Medicaid: guaranteed health care to every American over sixty-five.The Environment: introduced measures to reclaim our heritage of clean air and water. National Endowment for the Arts and the Humanities: created with the philosophy that artists, performers, and writers were a priceless part of our heritage and deserve support.Job Corps: provided enabling skills for young men and women.Head Start: program for four- and five-year-old children from disadvantaged families that gave them a chance to start school on an even basis with other youngsters.

5. Sampling of Laws • HIGHER EDUCATION FACILITIES ACT OF 1963 DEC. 16, 1963 • PREVENTION & ABATEMENT OF AIR POLLUTION(THE CLEAN AIR ACT) DEC. 17, 1963 • VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ACT OF 1963 DEC. 18, 1963 • INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK ACT JAN. 22,1964 • CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 JULY 2, 1964 • URBAN MASS TRANSPORTATION ACT OF 1964 JULY 9, 1964 • FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAY ACT OF 1964 AUG. 13, 1964 • CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT OF 1964 AUG. 20, 1964 • FOOD STAMP ACT OF 1964 AUG. 31, 1964 • WILDERNESS ACT SEPT. 3, 1964 • NATIONAL ARTS CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 1964 SEPT. 3, 1964 • MANPOWER ACT OF 1965 APRIL 26, 1965 • OLDER AMERICANS ACT OF 1965 JULY 14, 1965 • SOCIAL SECURITY AMENDMENTS OF 1965 JULY 30, 1965 • VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965 AUG. 6, 1965 • HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 1965 AUG. 10, 1965 • PUBLIC WORKS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 1965 AUG. 26, 1965 • DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT ACT SEPT. 9, 1965 • NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS & THE HUMANITIESACT OF 1965 SEPT. 29, 1965 • AMENDMENT OF FEDERAL WATER POLLUTION CONTROL ACT OCT. 2, 1965 • AMENDMENT TO THE IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT OCT. 3, 1965 • HIGHER EDUCATION ACT OF 1965 NOV. 8, 1965 • CHILD NUTRITION ACT OF 1966 OCT. 11, 1966 • CHILD PROTECTION ACT OF 1966 NOV. 3, 1966 • NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH ACT MAY 8, 1968

6. LBJ Foreign Policy • Vietnam=Cold War Politics • LBJ was hesitant about Vietnam, had control over military operations • After 1964 election he increased bombing and troops • HAWKS vs DOVES

7. “HIPPIE” Movement Term Hippie is from HIPSTER. Hip and Hep– African American culture-Awareness Hippie Life Berkley California

8. Antiwar • 1964: May 2nd, first demonstrations for Anti War • Time Square • Seattle • Madison, Wisconsin Anti War Demonstrations

9. 1965 • January 29, organized by professors against the war at the University of Michigan, the protest was attended by 2,500 participants. This model was to be repeated at 35 campuses across the country. • April 17, the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a civil rights activist group, led the first of several anti-war marches in Washington, D.C., with about 25,000 protesters. • Draft-card burnings took place at University of California, Berkeley at student demonstrations in May organized by a new anti-war group, the Vietnam Day Committee; events included a teach-in attended by 30,000, and the burning in effigy of president Lyndon Johnson. • A Gallup poll in May showed 48% of U.S. respondents felt the Government was handling the war effectively; 28% felt the situation was being handled badly; the rest, no opinion. Anti-War Clip • May – First anti-Vietnam War demonstration in London outside the U.S. embassy.[4] • Protests were held in June on the steps of the Pentagon, and in August, attempts were made by activists at Berkeley to stop the movement of trains carrying troops. • A Gallup poll in late August shows that 24% of Americans view sending troops to Vietnam as a mistake versus 60% who do not.[5] • By mid-October, the anti-war movement had significantly expanded to become a national and even global phenomenon, as anti-war protests drawing 100,000 were held simultaneously in as many as 80 major cities around the US, London, Paris and Rome. • On November 2, Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old pacifist, set himself on fire below the third-floor window of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara at the Pentagon, emulating the actions of the Vietnamese monk ThíchQuảngĐức. • On November 27, Coretta Scott King, SDS President Carl Oglesby, and Dr. Benjamin Spock, among others, spoke at an anti-war rally of about 30,000 in D.C. in the largest demonstration to date. Parallel protests occurred elsewhere around the nation.[6] On that same day, President Johnson announced a significant escalation of U.S. involvement in Indochina, from 120,000 to 400,000 troops.

10. 1965 • May – First anti-Vietnam War demonstration in London outside the U.S. embassy.[4] • Protests were held in June on the steps of the Pentagon, and in August, attempts were made by activists at Berkeley to stop the movement of trains carrying troops. • A Gallup poll in late August shows that 24% of Americans view sending troops to Vietnam as a mistake versus 60% who do not.[5] • By mid-October, the anti-war movement had significantly expanded to become a national and even global phenomenon, as anti-war protests drawing 100,000 were held simultaneously in as many as 80 major cities around the US, London, Paris and Rome. • On November 2, Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old pacifist, set himself on fire below the third-floor window of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara at the Pentagon, emulating the actions of the Vietnamese monk ThíchQuảngĐức. • On November 27, Coretta Scott King, SDS President Carl Oglesby, and Dr. Benjamin Spock, among others, spoke at an anti-war rally of about 30,000 in D.C. in the largest demonstration to date. Parallel protests occurred elsewhere around the nation.[6] On that same day, President

11. Music