Johnson Administration
Watch President Johnson 7min video
By 1963
1. Johnson attempted to solve the nation's domestic problems through legislation (which means more government)
2. Dispatched military to the conflict in Vietnam.
3. Growing discontent with the government at home and abroad. "Era of Discontent"
LBJ - Lyndon Baines Johnson
Great Society Johnson's social programs, it became the largest public welfare program since the New Deal
1. Two goals : improve education and eradicate poverty
Watch Women in the Workplace 9.5 min video :
Read p 630. What did each law attempt to do?
Higher Education act of 1965 gave federal grants for the construction of college buildings and student loans
Elementary and Secondary Education Act gave money to local public schools Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 inaugurated programs for the "War on Poverty"
Medicare Act of 1965 gave medical care for the elderly
Appalachian Development Act raise the standard of living in the Appalachian Mts.
Two new Cabinet - level offices ? HUD and DofT
Civil Rights Movement continues: it attempted to give more rights to blacks and end segregation.
Watch Civil Rights Marches 5 min video
1. Civil Rights Act - prohibited racial discrimination in public schools
 2. 24th Amendment eliminated poll taxes
3. Robert Weaver first black cabinet officer
4. Thurgood Marshall 1st black
Supreme Court Justice.
5. Malcolm X took Martin Luther King Jr's to the extreme through "black power"
6. King's assassination in 1968 by James
Earl Ray ended his "I have a dream"

Third World poorer less developed foreign countries

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Medicare: http://www.classbrain.com/artteenst/uploads/medicare.jpg
March to Washington: http://photos1.Civil%20Rights%20March.jpg
Poll Tax: http://www.pbs.org/elections/timeline/le/03-pbs-timeline-images/1964.jpg
Weaver: http://www.planning.org/pathways/images/weaver.jpg
Marshall: http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/buildings/brvbord2.jpg
Malcolm X: http://commons.wikimedia.org/upload/thumb/d/de/300px-Malcolm-x.jpg
MLK:
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Third World: http://genertries/departments/mm/1998/spring/wayoutofdebt2.jpg |