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Lyndon B. Johnson
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Johnson meets with Sen. Richard Russell Photo: Yoichi R. Okamoto, 1963
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Election of 1964 LBJ “Daisy Girl” Barry Goldwater “Hearts” & “Nuts”
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Great Society Office of Economic Opportunity Operation Head Start Job Corps Neighborhood Youth Corps Upward Bound Model Cities Program
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Great Society Department of Housing and Urban Development Department of Transportation Medicare Medicaid Elementary and Secondary Education Act National Endowment for the Arts
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Great Society Water Quality Act Clean Air Act “Truth in Lending” “Truth in Advertising” Immigration Reform
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Birmingham Campaign
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Great Society Voting Rights Act of 1965 Authorized federal intervention Civil Rights Act of 1968 Housing and assembly focus
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The Warren Court Bond v. Floyd The New York Times v. Sullivan Roth v. United States Engel v. Vitale Gideon v. Wainwright Miranda v. Arizona Griswald v. Connecticut
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The Cold War Continues Israel NATO & France
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Lennox Avenue Mural What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore – And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over – like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? Langston Hughes
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…a dream deferred? Legacy of the “Greatest Generation” Great Depression & WW II Liberal Consensus Economic Growth National Renewal
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…a dream deferred? Forgotten by the “American Dream” African-Americans Latinos American Indians Women Homosexuals
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…a dream deferred? Rejection of the “American Dream” Consumerism Militarism Conventional Morality Gender Identity
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…a dream stolen? John F. Kennedy – November 22, 1963
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…a dream stolen? Malcolm X – February 21, 1965
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…a dream stolen? Martin Luther King, Jr. – April 4, 1968
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…a dream stolen? Robert Kennedy – June 5, 1968
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He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our despair against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. Aeschylus
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Forgotten: African - Americans Modern Civil Rights Movement Direction Direct Action v. Voter Registration Political Rights v. Human Rights Registration v. Education Voting v. Working Elections v. Housing Results Negotiated v. Absolute Use of Violence
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…does it explode? Race Riots Short Term Causes Police Brutality Assassinations Long Term Causes Institutionalized Racism Urban Poverty
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Race Riots: Watts
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Race Riots: Newark
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Race Riots: Detriot
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Race Riots: Washington, DC
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Riots: Chicago Democratic National Convention
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Forgotten: Black Power Nation of Islam & Malcolm X
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Forgotten: Latinos Cesar Chavez National Farm Workers Association Si Se Puede or Yes we can.
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Forgotten: American Indians American Indian Movement (AIM)
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Forgotten: Women Rebirth of Feminism Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
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Forgotten: Homosexuals Stonewall Riots – Greenwich Village NYC
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Rejection “Hippies”
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Rejection Drugs “Turn on, Tune in, and Drop out.”
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Rejection Haight-Ashbury – San Francisco
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Rejection Woodstock
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Counterculture In your school... In America today… Who has been forgotten by the dominant culture? Who is rejecting the dominant culture? How do we know?
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