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Lyndon B. Johnson. LBJ  Texas Senator  Vice President for JFK  Little foreign policy experience  Re-elected president in 1964  Focus—social programs.

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1 Lyndon B. Johnson

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

3 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

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

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

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

7 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

8 Cesar Chavez Organized migrant workers into the United Farm Workers

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

10 Women’s Rights  Women’s movement stems from the Civil Rights movement  1963---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

11 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

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

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

14 Women’s Rights


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