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Civil Rights & the 60's: Kennedy vs. Nixon - Struggles, Achievements, and Legacy

Explore the events and challenges faced by John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon during the civil rights movement of the 1960s. From Kennedy's youth and religion to the Kennedy/Nixon debate and Dr. King's arrest, discover how Kennedy's presidency and the passage of the Civil Rights Act shaped the era. Witness the transition to Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society and the fight against poverty. Learn about landmark legislations and programs such as the Job Corps, Medicare, and HUD that aimed to improve the lives of Americans.

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Civil Rights & the 60's: Kennedy vs. Nixon - Struggles, Achievements, and Legacy

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  1. Civil Rights & the 60’s

  2. 1960 John F. Kennedy Vs. Richard M. Nixon

  3. Kennedy’s problems: • Youth • Religion

  4. Strengths: • War hero • Charm & wit • Wife Jackie • Youth

  5. Kennedy/Nixon Debate

  6. Dr. King arrested in Atlanta Kennedy works to insure safety and get his release Nixon does nothing

  7. New Frontier Kennedy can’t get much thru Congress Southern Democrats & Republicans block it

  8. Does get: *lower tariff *Peace Corps

  9. “I am the man who accompanied Jackie Kennedy to Paris”

  10. Kennedy in Dallas Nov. 22, 1963

  11. New President: Lyndon Baines Johnson Former Majority Leader of the Senate Knows how to deal w/Congress

  12. Johnson able to capitalize on country’s grief and some of the New Frontier passed Civil Rights Act of 1964

  13. GUTS NUTS

  14. WAR ON POVERTY

  15. Great Society

  16. OEO-Office of Economic Opportunity Creates programs for education, housing and health care Community Action Housing Act

  17. Medicare – federal aid to elderly for medical expenses Medicaid – Federal medical assistance to welfare recipients

  18. Job Corps – job training for unemployed inner-city youths VISTA - Peace Corps for the US Head Start – preschool training for disadvantaged children

  19. *Elementary & Secondary Ed Act *Immigration Act *HUD – Department of Housing and Urban Development

  20. 21% below poverty line • 1969 12% • Problem: must compete for $ withVietnam • Federal budget doubles 1961 to 1970

  21. Civil Rights

  22. NAACP challenges concept of “separate but equal” in courts

  23. Earl Warren

  24. Brown v. Board of Ed. Separate is inherently unequal

  25. Thurgood Marshall Inc Fund

  26. Mississippi, Alabama, Florida , Georgia declare the ruling “null and void” Some district close schools Klan membership up

  27. December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus

  28. Rosa Parks

  29. Decision is made to boycott buses 75% of passengers are Black 95% of Blacks stop using buses

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