ch.31 ordeal of liberalism
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Ch.31 Ordeal of Liberalism . Civil Rights . Civil Rights Movement. Civil Rights Act of 1957 Aimed at protecting A.A. voting rights Southern Dems . tried defeat the act Anyone interfering with A.A. right to vote Goal to register 2 million A.A. . Election of 1960 . - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Ch.31 Ordeal of Liberalism
Civil Rights
• Civil Rights Act of 1957– Aimed at protecting A.A.
voting rights
• Southern Dems. tried defeat the act
• Anyone interfering with A.A. right to vote
• Goal to register 2 million A.A.
Civil Rights Movement
Election of 1960
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgV7muq3o3Q
Sit-Ins: Woolworth’s Store, Greensboro NC
• 1959 and 1960
• Purchased school supplies
• Denied service
• SNCC • Student Non-violent Coordinating
Committee)
• Sit-in protest
Civil Rights Movement
Freedom Riders (1961)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zBY6gkpbTg
Integration of James Meredith (1962)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8VvNkTXVCM
Birmingham, Alabama (1963)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9kT1yO4MGg
Letter from Birmingham Jail
JFK: Response to Civil Rights
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cSrvqYKQH8
March on Washington (1963)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wDU-oYQN04
Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965LBJ
• 1964: Segregation illegal in all public facilities-Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• 1965: Voting Rights Act- Ended literacy tests and federal registrars.
Kennedy and Jackie
Kennedy Domestic Policy
“The torch being passed to a new generation” Promised a “New Frontier”
Secretary of Defense Economist
Robert McNamara John Kenneth Galbraith
New Frontier
• Aid to education• Federal support of health care • Urban renewal • Civil rights
Why does he have issues with this accomplishing this “new frontier?”
Kennedy: Cold War
• Bay of Pigs
Berlin Wall
Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
Fear of Attack
US naval blockade of Cuba
Results
• Khrushchev backed down• Kennedy agreed not to invade Cuba• Telecommunications line made• Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Flexible Response
• Africa and Southeast Asia
Assassination of JFKNovember 22, 1963
LBJ
LBJ
• 30 Years in Congress• Persuaded Congress to pass1) Expanded version of Kennedy’s Civil Rights
bill2) Kennedy’s proposal for income tax cut.
Freedom Summer (June 1964)
LBJ
“Unconditional war on poverty”• Great Society:
Great SocietyOffice of Economic Opportunity (OEO)
• Medicare• Medicaid• Elementary and Secondary Education Act• Immigration Act of 1965 • National Foundation of Arts• Department of Transportation & Department of
Housing and Urban Development• More funding for higher education & public
housing/crime prevention.