1. LBJ – Personal Background
LBJ: The Great Society
Economic Success
Steady GNP growth
Unparalleled advances in
science & technology
Unintended environmental problems
LBJ – Personal Background

2. -- Jonas Salk, Inventor of the Polio Vaccine
“Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.”
-- Jonas Salk, Inventor of the Polio Vaccine

3. Lyndon Baines Johnson

4. LBJ: The Great Society A flood of legislation
Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) – “War on Poverty”
Completion of JFK’s work:
Tax cut, mass transit, wilderness preservation, Civil Rights Act of 1964*
Working with the 89th Congress (‘65-’66):
Medicare/Medicaid*
Dept. of Housing & Urban Development*
Clean air/water, Highway safety/beautification
Higher Ed. Act, Truth-in-Lending Act
1965 Immigration Act*
Voting Rights Act of 1965*

6. Signing Ceremony – Civil Rights Act of 1964 (7/2/64)

7. Signing Ceremony – Civil Rights Act of 1964 (7/2/64)

8. Selma March, “Bloody Sunday” - March 7, 1965

9. Selma March, 1965

10. Lyndon Johnson on the right to vote: ‘‘It is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men’’

12. Consequences of Non-Violent Mass Action Montgomery
Birmingham
& March on Wash.
Selma
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 & 1960
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965

13. LBJ: The Great Society Election of 1964 Space Race Supreme Court
Goldwater conservatism
“Landslide Lyndon” rings true
Space Race
Kennedy’s challenge = LBJ’s mission
Supreme Court
Protections for the accused
Voting Rights
Freedom of expression

15. Apollo Space Program – 1960s