Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company Signs, a 1970 painting by Robert Rauschenberg.

Lecture Preview The Civil Rights Revolution The Kennedy Years Lyndon Johnson’s Presidency The Changing Black Movement Vietnam and the New Left The New Movements and the Rights Revolution 1968

The Civil Rights Revolution  Focus Question: What were the major events in the civil rights movement of the early 1960s?  Focus Question: What were the major events in the civil rights movement of the early 1960s?

The Civil Rights Revolution: protests The Rising Tide of Protest Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) James Meredith ( University of Mississippi) 1962

Birmingham Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963) Black school children asked to join protest Assassination of Medgar Evers 1963 Church bombing The March on Washington The Civil Rights Revolution: Martin Luther King

The Kennedy Years  Focus Question: What were the major crises and policy initiatives of the Kennedy presidency?  Focus Question: What were the major crises and policy initiatives of the Kennedy presidency?

The Kennedy Years: foreign policy Kennedy and the World Cold War Warrior Peace Corps (1961) young Americans to assist economic and educational work in developing nations Space Program ( response to the Soviet’s putting the first man in space (1961)) Alliance for Progress – a Marshall Plan for Latin American nations to combat communism Bay of Pigs ( April 1961)

The Kennedy Years: cold war and civil rights The Missile Crisis October 1962 Kennedy and Civil Rights 1962 Banned discrimination in federal housing law enforcement was a local responsibility 1963 Birmingham protests June 1963 Called for a law banning discrimination in all pubic accommodations November 22, 1963, President Kennedy assassinated

Lyndon Johnson’s Presidency  Focus Question: What were the purposes and strategies of Johnson’s Great Society programs?  Focus Question: What were the purposes and strategies of Johnson’s Great Society programs?

Lyndon Johnson’s Presidency: Civil Rights The Civil Rights Act of 1964 New Deal Democrat Immediately called on Congress to enact the civil rights bill Freedom Summer Voting registration drive in the South Three civil rights workers murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (Fannie Lou Hamer testimony 1964)

Lyndon Johnson’s Presidency: conservatism The 1964 Election Republican candidate, Barry Goldwater ( tougher Cold War stance, private charity to replace public welfare and social security, eliminate the graduated income tax, and voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act The Conservative Sixties Alabama governor George Wallace did well in the primaries Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) – advocated limited government, destruction of global communism Birth of the Southern strategy

Lyndon Johnson’s Presidency: voting and immigration The Voting Rights Act 1965 March on Selma lead by Dr. King (defying a ban on protest by Governor Wallace Johnson called on Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965 24 th amendment outlawed poll taxes (1964)

Lyndon Johnson’s Presidency: welfare The Great Society Spurred by prosperity not depression Medicaid and Medicare Educational funds Department of Transportation Housing and Urban Development Equal Employment Opportunities Commission National Public Broadcasting Network

The Changing Black Movement  Focus Question: How did the civil rights movement change in the mid-1960s?  Focus Question: How did the civil rights movement change in the mid-1960s?

The Changing Black Movement: black power Malcolm X The Rise of Black Power

Vietnam and the New Left  Focus Question: How did the Vietnam War transform American politics and culture?  Focus Question: How did the Vietnam War transform American politics and culture?

Vietnam and the New Left: Student movement Old and New Lefts From economic equality to recognition and battle against exclusion Organizations such as Students for a Democratic Society Mario Savio

Vietnam and the New Left: social criticism

Vietnam and the New Left: cold war policy America and Vietnam Lack of Vietnamese historical knowledge forced the US to view the uprisings in Vietnam only through a Cold War scope. 1955 Ngo Dinh Diem undemocratically elected (Fraudulently elected)

Vietnam and the New Left: vietnam war Lyndon Johnson’s War Gulf Tonkin Resolution - August 4, 1964 Massive air strikes By 1968 US troops reached 500,000 in South Vietnam The Antiwar Movement SDS (antithesis to participatory democracy), Martin Luther King Jr., War draftees disproportionately poor and minority.

Vietnam and the New Left: generational rebellion The Counterculture Personal Liberation and the Free Individual Faith and the Counterculture

The New Movements and the Rights Revolution  Focus Question: What were the sources and significance of the rights revolution of the late 1960s?  Focus Question: What were the sources and significance of the rights revolution of the late 1960s?

The New Movements and the Rights Revolution: women The Feminine Mystique In this work, Betty Friedan uses the term, “comfortable concentration camp” Women’s Liberation Equal Pay Act (1963) National Organization of Women (1966) Friedan as president. 1968 Miss America beauty pageant, feminist threw bras, high heeled shoes, and copies of Playboy and Cosmopolitan in trash cans

The New Movements and the Rights Revolution: personal rights Personal Freedom Control over reproduction as most basic of women’s freedoms (Roe v Wade 1973) Gay Liberation Stigmatized as sinful and even mentally ill “in the closet” to fighting for gay liberation 1969 riot, Stonewall bar in New York’s Greenwich Village, gave rise to two organizations, Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Activist Alliance

The New Movements and the Rights Revolution: latinos and indians Latino Activism United Farm Workers Union (Cesar Chavez) forced growers to sign labor contracts with the union

1968  Focus Question: In what ways was 1968 a climactic year for the Sixties?  Focus Question: In what ways was 1968 a climactic year for the Sixties?

1968: events A Year of Turmoil Tet Offensive – multiple uprisings throughout South Vietnam by the Viet Cong Lyndon B Johnson decides not to seek re-election Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated Robert Kennedy assassinated The Chicago Eight – antiwar demonstrators arrested and charged with inciting violence for protesting at the Democratic national convention against the nomination of Vice President Hubert Humphrey

1968: social impact Nixon’s Comeback

Review The Civil Rights Revolution Focus Question: What were the major events in the civil rights movement of the early 1960s? The Kennedy Years Focus Question: What were the major crises and policy initiatives of the Kennedy presidency? Lyndon Johnson’s Presidency Focus Question: What were the purposes and strategies of Johnson's Great Society programs? The Changing Black Movement Focus Question: How did the civil rights movement change in the mid- 1960s?

Review Continued Vietnam and the New Left Focus Question: How did the Vietnam War transform American politics and culture? The New Movements and the Rights Revolution Focus Question: What were the sources and significance of the rights revolution of the late 1960s? 1968 Focus Question: In what ways was 1968 a climactic year for the Sixties?

MEDIA LINKS —— Chapter 25 —— TitleMedia link Eric Foner on social and political upheaval in 1968 http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/foner4 /&f=turmoil_in_1968 Eric Foner on the Great Society and the New Deal http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/foner4 /mp4/&f=question124 Eric Foner on the Immigration Law of 1965 http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/foner4 /mp4/&f=question125 Eric Foner on feminism in the 1960shttp://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/foner4 /mp4/&f=question126 Eric Foner on the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/foner4 /&f=2013_Anniversaries

Next Lecture PREVIEW: —— Chapter 26 —— The Triumph of Conservatism, 1969–1988 President Nixon Vietnam and Watergate The End of the Golden Age The Rising Tide of Conservatism The Reagan Revolution

Norton Lecture Slides Independent and Employee-Owned http://wwnorton.com/college/history/give-me-liberty4/ by Eric Foner Norton Lecture Slides Independent and Employee-Owned http://wwnorton.com/college/history/give-me-liberty4/ by Eric Foner This concludes the Norton Lecture Slides Slide Set for Chapter 25 Give Me Liberty! AN AMERICAN HISTORY FOURTH EDITION

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