1. Vice Pres LBJ takes the reins… The Great Society – LBJ sworn in on Air Force One – Continues JFK plans – War on Poverty Pg 858 – A new New Deal ? Too expensive? A needed expense ?

2. Chap 29 Civil Rights

3. How it began…… 1896 – Plessy v. Ferguson – Separate but Equal NAACP fights to overturn segregation – Attorney Thurgood Marshall – Future Supreme Ct Justice

4. Eisenhower years Brown v Board of Education 5/54 – South challenges Rosa Parks - Dec 1955 – Montgomery Bus Boycott – Martin Luther King 26 yr old Pastor Southern Christian Leadership Conference

5. A nation torn from within Little Rock Central HS, AR 1957 – Gov defies Supreme Ct / Constitution – National Guard called to enforce segregation – Ike steps in Sends in the Army Stay all school year – Civil Rights Act 1957 Civil Rights Division of DoJ