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.