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I. What JFK can’t do, LBJ can
a. War on Poverty• Economic Opportunity Act• Office of Economic Opportunity • VISTA – Volunteers in Service to America –
the domestic counter part to Peace Corps• Operation Head Start – aid for preschoolers
from under privileged homes• Job Corps for school dropouts• HUD – Dept. Of Housing and Urban
Development
b. Medicare and Medicaid • Health Insurance Act for the Aged, 1965;
amended the Social Security Act, provides federally funded hospital insurance for people over 65
• Medicare – health care for seniors• Medicaid – health care for the needy
c. Helping Education• Elementary & Secondary Education Act of
1965, 1.3 billion in aid directly to students
d. The Moon Landing (I remember this!)• July 20, 1969; Neil Armstrong, Edwin E.
Aldrin Jr. – Apollo 11 fulfilled Kennedy’s promise of 1961
• Neil Armstrong, first to step foot on the Moon – “One small step for man, one giant step for mankind”.
• One year later, USSR lands a robot on the moon to do the same thing as the astronauts did
• 6 additional moon landings
II. Black Protest
a. NAACP• W.E.B. Du Bois one of the founders• Provided black leadership in the early 20th
Century• Most gains through court cases• Thurgood Marshall – lead lawyer in the
Brown case (Later Supreme Court Justice)• By 1977, becomes more active, lobbying,
demonstrations, sit ins, boycotts
c. The National Urban League• 1910, first concentrated on helping blacks
who migrated to the North, to find homes, jobs, training program
d. Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) • 1942, committed to nonviolent, direct action
to end racial discrimination• Recruited on college campuses, staged sit
ins and freedom rides
e. Southern Christian Leadership Conf.• Organized by MLK• Organized the March on Washington• Primarily in the South – “full citizenship
rights, equality, integration of the Negro”
f. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
• Stokely Carmichael and other more militant leaders – favored “black power”
• Substantial following on college campuses• Black & white freedom rides in the South• Black power – rally cry
g. Black Muslims• Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam (Black
Muslims) rejected integration, sought to establish a separate black government in one or more of the United States
• Malcolm X – broke with the Black Muslims, formed his own organization– Used “X” as a surname to designate their
rejection of names acquired under slavery
h. Civil Unrest• Aug 1965; Watts – black ghetto district – LA• 34 deaths, 100+ wounded• More than 100 race riots in cities in 1960s
The End of Part 6