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Ch.31 Ordeal of Liberalism . Civil Rights . Civil Rights Movement. Civil Rights Act of 1957 Aimed at protecting A.A. voting rights Southern Dems . tried defeat the act Anyone interfering with A.A. right to vote Goal to register 2 million A.A. . Election of 1960 .
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Civil Rights Movement Civil Rights Act of 1957 Aimed at protecting A.A. voting rights Southern Dems. tried defeat the act Anyone interfering with A.A. right to vote Goal to register 2 million A.A.
Election of 1960 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgV7muq3o3Q
Civil Rights Movement Sit-Ins: Woolworth’s Store, Greensboro NC • 1959 and 1960 • Purchased school supplies • Denied service • SNCC • Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee) • Sit-in protest
Freedom Riders (1961) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zBY6gkpbTg
Integration of James Meredith (1962) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8VvNkTXVCM
Birmingham, Alabama (1963) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9kT1yO4MGg
JFK: Response to Civil Rights • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cSrvqYKQH8
March on Washington (1963) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wDU-oYQN04
Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965LBJ • 1964: Segregation illegal in all public facilities -Equal Employment Opportunity Commission • 1965: Voting Rights Act- Ended literacy tests and federal registrars.
Kennedy Domestic Policy “The torch being passed to a new generation” Promised a “New Frontier” Secretary of Defense Economist Robert McNamaraJohn Kenneth Galbraith
New Frontier • Aid to education • Federal support of health care • Urban renewal • Civil rights Why does he have issues with this accomplishing this “new frontier?”
Kennedy: Cold War • Bay of Pigs
Results • Khrushchev backed down • Kennedy agreed not to invade Cuba • Telecommunications line made • Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Flexible Response • Africa and Southeast Asia
LBJ • 30 Years in Congress • Persuaded Congress to pass • Expanded version of Kennedy’s Civil Rights bill • Kennedy’s proposal for income tax cut.
LBJ “Unconditional war on poverty” • Great Society:
Great SocietyOffice of Economic Opportunity (OEO) • Medicare • Medicaid • Elementary and Secondary Education Act • Immigration Act of 1965 • National Foundation of Arts • Department of Transportation & Department of Housing and Urban Development • More funding for higher education & public housing/crime prevention.