1. LBJ’s Great Society
26 years of experience
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2. Essential Questions
How did members of each branch of the federal government promote greater racial justice?
How was Liberalism embodied in Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society in its efforts to end racial discrimination, eliminate poverty, and address social issues?

3. The Texan’s Style
Shows off his surgery scar/howling with his dog/

4. “The Johnson Treatment”
Pic 1 Dr. Teller: scientist/image 2: Civil rights bill discussed: President Lyndon Johnson with Senator Richard Russell at the White House, December 7, 1963, Washington, DC. image 3 senate majority leader Johnson works over Chairman of the Senate Foreign relations cmmittee in 1957

5. War on Poverty
“There are tens of millions of Americans who are beyond the welfare state. Taken as a whole there is a culture of poverty…bad health, poor housing, low levels of aspiration, and high levels of mental distress. Twenty percent of a nation, some 32,000,000.” - Michael Harrington, The Other America 1962
Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) – billion dollar budget
Head Start, Job Corps, literacy, legal assistance
Community Action Program – community organizers

6. The 1964 Election

7. Johnson/Humphrey

8. “The Daisy Ad”
Lyndon Johnson's 1964 "daisy" ad implied that Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater might lead the world to nuclear war.

9. The Results
How does this contrast the 1960 election?

10. The Great Society
“The Great Society rests on abundance and liberty for all. It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice.” LBJ 1964
Food Stamp Act of 1964 (food aid to poor)
National Foundation on the Arts & Humanities
Medicare (elderly) & Medicaid (poor & disabled)
Elementary & Secondary Education Act– funding to poor districts
Higher Education Act - scholarships for college
Immigration Act of 1965 (Hart-Celler Act) – end to quotas – rise in Asian & L. Americans
HUD - $ for public housing and crime prevention, DOT
Water Quality and Clean Air Acts (Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring 1962)
Highway Safety Act (Unsafe at Any Speed – Ralph Nader 1965)
Fair Packaging and Labeling Act 1966

11. LBJ – Civil Rights
Civil Rights Act of LBJ pressured Congress - segregation illegal in all public facilities including hotels & restaurants, death of Jim Crow
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission – based on Title VII – no work discrimination
24th Amendment – bans poll taxes
“Freedom Summer” 1964 Mississippi voting
Selma March – “Bloody Sunday” followed by March to Montgomery 1965
Voting Rights Act of 1965 – end to literacy tests expanded federal gov enforcement