Home Front LBJ 1963-1969 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuuEFTgodc8

Great Society Expand Kennedy’s civil rights bill

LBJ Howard University Commencement speech 1965 But freedom is not enough. You do not take a person who, for years has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him to the starting line of a race, and then say, ‘you are free to compete with all the others,’ and still justly believe that you have been completely fair. Thus it is not enough to just open the gates of opportunity. All our citizens must have the ability to walk through those gates. This is the next and more profound stage in the battle for civil rights. We seek not just freedom, but opportunity. We seek not just legal equity, but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory, but equality as a right, and equality as a result. To this end, equal opportunity is essential, but not enough.

War on Poverty Michael Harrington’s book, The Other America (1962) led to: 40 million living in poverty 2. Office of Economic Opportunity Billion dollar budget Head Start Job Corps 3. Literacy programs 4. Great Society costs cut back once Vietnam War starts

LBJ destroys Goldwater in ‘64

Great Society Reforms Medicare Medicaid Elementary and Secondary Education Act Abolished discriminatory quota laws of the 1920s Increase spending for higher education, public housing and crime prevention Created the department of Urban Development Increased funding for higher education Congress passed automobile reforms after Ralph Nader’s Unsafe at any speed

Influential literature of the Sixties Unsafe at any speeds (Ralph Nader) Silent Spring (Rachel Carson)

Civil Rights Civil Rights Act of 1964 24th Amendment Illegal to segregate in all public facilities 24th Amendment Abolish poll taxes Voting Act of 1965 After the brutality in Selma, AL, Congress passes Voting Act of 1965 which ended literacy tests in the South

MLK National prominence began during the Montgomery Bus Boycott Jailed in 1963 in Birmingham “I have a dream speech” in ’63 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTMPZh0H0_g

Black Muslims Leader Elijah Muhammad preached separatism, nationalism and self improvement Malcolm X called MLK an “Uncle Tom” Malcolm X killed in ‘65

Other civil rights groups SNCC and Core Freedom Riders Freedoms Summer Black Panthers

CORE accomplishments Route taken by the Freedom Riders Students were testing the decision by the Court in Boynton vs. Virginia

Race riots Race riots sprang up throughout UIS cities from 1964-1968 Kerner Commission investigate the causes of the 1967 race riots in the United States and to provide recommendations for the future Racism and segregation were responsible for riots ignored the report and rejected http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRDvY_anJdc

1968 This year was a pivotal year during the ‘60s LBJ publicly state that he will not seek nor will he accept the Democratic nomination for President of the United States After winning the California Democratic Primary, Robert Kennedy is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan After visiting Memphis in support of garbage workers strike MLK is assassinated after leaving his hotel room by James Earl Ray

Counterculture

Sexual Revolution Alfred Kinsey Karl Djerassi Found that premarital sex, marital infidelity and homosexuality were on the rise Karl Djerassi Creates the pill in 1960

Women’s Movement Feminine Mystique by Betty Freidan encourage women to seek careers National Organization for Women (NOW) Equal Pay (1963) and Civil Rights Act (1964) ERA not adopted during the Conservative 1970’s