Domestic Events Kennedy and Johnson

  1. Kennedy
  2. 1960 Election
  3. Impact of Television
  4. Eisenhower’s “Failures”?
  5. New Frontier
  6. Education, urban renewal, medical care for the elderly, creation of Department of Urban Affairs, Civil Rights
  7. All blocked by Republicans and Southern Democrats
  8. Successes
  9. minimum wage increase to $1.25
  10. Housing Act
  11. Moon landing
  12. Economy continues to grow during the 1960’s
  13. Civil Rights=
  14. Freedom Riders sponsored by CORE
  15. RFK pushes for integration, uses Justice Department as AG
  16. JFK encourages SNCC and the Voter Education Program
  17. James Meredith integrates Ole Miss
  18. JFK uses National Guard
  19. Proposes Civil Rights Bill
  20. held up in Congress
  21. March on Washington
  22. JFK vs. Alabama Governor George Wallace
  23. Birmingham
  24. MLK,jrs march in spring 1963 met with violence
  25. JFK says Civil Rights is a “moral issue”
  26. Church Bombing kills 4 girls at Sunday school
  27. Desegregation of the University of Alabama
  28. JFK takes control of the state National Guard to enforce integration
  29. Assassination
  30. Lee Harvey Oswald
  31. Warren Commission
  32. LBJ
  33. 1964 Civil Rights Act
  34. Bans discrimination in all private facilities
  35. Creates EEOC
  36. 1964 Freedom Summer
  37. Violence
  38. 3 activists killed in Neshoba County, Mississippi
  39. 24th Amendment
  40. Eliminated poll taxes
  41. Voting Rights
  42. March on Selma
  43. Voting Rights Act= outlaws literacy tests
  44. 1964 Election
  45. Republicans nominate Barry Goldwater
  46. Goldwater wants to greatly reduce taxes, Social Security, & the TVA
  47. Opposed the Great Society
  48. Johnson campaign ads portray Goldwater as a threat to safety
  49. Gulf of Tonkin
  50. Goldwater had supported Civil Rights legislation but now turns against further legislation. States rights stance wins him votes in the south but costs him votes everywhere else
  51. Great Society
  52. War on Poverty
  53. Michael Harrington’s The Other America exposed that 20% of Americans live in poverty
  54. Medicare/Medicaid, Head start, HUD, Affirmative Action, Education Funding for poor areas
  55. Immigration Act 1965
  56. end to quota system, now on skills and political asylum
  57. increase in immigration especially Latin America and Asia
  58. Race Riots=70% AA live in ghettos
  59. Watts
  60. Newark, Chicago, Detroit
  61. Kerner Commission
  62. Black Power Movement
  63. Nation of Islam
  64. Elijah Muhhamad and Malcolm X
  65. “by any means necessary” counter to non-violent SCLC tactics
  66. Stokley Carmichael changes positions
  67. Black Panther Movement in Oakland
  68. copycat groups make it more militant
  69. MLK, Jr assassinated
  70. April 4, 1968 in Tennessee
  71. Thurgood Marshall, Robert Weaver
  72. Vietnam’s Impact on LBJ domestic agenda
  73. Social movements
  74. UFW/Cesar Chavez
  75. Chicano movement
  76. AIM
  77. Alcatraz occupied
  78. SDS
  79. The weathermen
  80. Counterculture
  81. Free Speech Movement born at UC Berkely
  82. Women’s Liberation
  83. Betty Friedan= The Feminine Mystique
  84. NOW
  85. ERA fails
  86. middle-class women
  87. The Manhattan Society
  88. 1968 Election
  89. RFK assassination
  90. Democratic convention explodes in riots
  91. Wallace’s 3rd party
  92. LBJ doesn’t run
  93. RFK assassinated
  94. Nixon wins