Johnson becomes President  November 22, 1963 John F. Kennedy is killed by Lee Harvey Oswald who is in turn killed by Jack Ruby. Televised  Lyndon Johnson becomes president.  The “Johnson Treatment”  Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed  Banned racial discrimination in facilities such as theaters, hospitals and restaurants

Lyndon Johnson as President  6 foot 3 inches tall, from Texas  Senator since 1937  His mentor was Franklin D. Roosevelt

Economically  “War on Poverty” – called his program the Great Society  Michael Harrington’s book The Other America published in 1962 described the poverty level of many Americans, LBJ wanted to end that

1964 Election  Johnson – democrat vs. Barry Goldwater – Republican  Goldwater attacked Federal Income tax, Social Security, the TVA, civil rights legislation, nuclear test ban treaty and the Great Society

Gulf of Tonkin  Gulf of Tonkin Resolution August 1964  Without the public or Congress knowing the U.S.. Navy ships had been cooperating with South Vietnamese gunboats in raids along the coast of North Vietnam  American ships fired on the North Vietnamese

Battle for Black Rights  Civil Rights Act 1964 gave the government the right to enforce school desegregation  1964 the 24 th Amendment abolished poll tax for federal elections  1964 “Freedom Summer” June Black, 2 White civil rights workers were murdered while trying to register black voters

Voter Registration  1965 Martin Luther King resumed voter registration in Selma, Alabama  Blacks made up 50% of the population with only 1% of them registered voters  Voting Rights Act 1965 signed into law Aug. 6, it outlawed literacy test

Black Power  Trouble in Northern and Western cities  Most people shocked  Watts Riots in L.A lasted one week  31 Black died, 3 Whites dead, over 1,000 injured  Black communities frustrated with high unemployment, double what is was for Whites

New Phase of Black Movement  Black struggle becomes more militant  New leader Malcolm Little known as Malcolm X  Black Panther movement in Oakland, Ca  1966 Stokely Carmichael a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee known as “SNICK”  Preach “Black Power

Tragedy Feb. 21, 1965 Malcolm X is murdered April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King is murdered