Lyndon B. Johnson

LBJ  Texas Senator  Vice President for JFK  Little foreign policy experience  Re-elected president in 1964  Focus—social programs  Invoked the memory of JFK

The Great Society  The umbrella term for Johnson’s social programs  War on Poverty—Appalachia  Money to higher education  Dept. of Housing and Urban Development  Office of Economic Opportunity  Medicare

Results of the Great Society  Controlled the recession  Inflation increased  Guns or butter??

Supreme Court and Social Change Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) Gave precedent to the court appointing an attorney to anyone who could not afford one

Supreme Court and Social Change  Escobedo v. Illinois (1964)  All suspects have the right to have an attorney present while being questioned

Supreme Court and Social Change  Miranda v. Arizona  The accused had to be warned that statements could be used against them in a court of law

Cesar Chavez Organized migrant workers into the United Farm Workers

Biblical Definition of the Relationship between men and women  Matthew 24:38  Numbers 30:3-16  Ephesians 5:25  I Thessalonians 4:6

Women’s Rights  Women’s movement stems from the Civil Rights movement  women earned 63% of the salary that men earned for the same job  1970—women earned 41% of college degrees  Small minority of women in politics by 1960

Women’s Rights Pay Equity Act—established equal pay for equal work 1964 Civil Rights Act— “non- discrimination” based on race, origin or gender” 1966—National Organization of Women was formed

Women’s Rights  Movement started in 1920s with Susan B. Anthony  19 th amendment— women’s suffrage  1960s –more militant faction

Women’s Rights  Femi-nazis--- Women’s Liberation Movement  Betty Freidan– The Feminine Mystique  Homes as a prison—women as slaves

Women’s Rights