Lecture 27: LBJ, the Great Society, and the Pinnacle of Liberalism

Kennedy’s Assassinator

Lee Harvey Oswald

LBJ died from

a massive heart attack

Revenue Act of 1964

• Major tax cut

• Highest income tax bracket was borough down

Civil Rights of 1964

• Outlawed racial discrimination and segregation in public accommodations

• Cut off funding to states in local gov that practiced discrimination

• Banned discrimination in employment and hiring, based on things like race and sex

Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO)

number of programs aimed at diminishing poverty

Jobs Corps

vocational training

Youth Groups

meant to train youth and provide employment for youth

Work Study

students with low income families could work for their schools

Community Action Program (CAP)

provided leans and grants for farmers and businesses and job training for welfare

Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA)

send college students to rural areas to teach literacy

Medicare

• Health insurance for people over the age of 65

• Gov program that picks up medical expenses for seniors

Medicaid

Federal health insurance program for the working poor

Elementary and Secondary Education Act

1 Billion dollars of federal funding for schools, the largest share going to impoverished school districts

Head Start

program provided to give poor school children a boost or head start

Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Established federal oversight of deep south elections

• Federal examiners could register black voters in the south

• Outlawed literacy tests

Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

• Repealed national quota act of 1954

• Opens up immigration to people all over the world

Highway Beauty Act

Eliminated junk yards along the road and supplied federal funding for rest areas

Fair Housing Act of 1968

Prohibited discrimination in the renting or buying of housing based on race, religion, or national origin

Election of 1964

• Goldwater taken 5 deep south states

• Results signified deep danger for democrats

Gulf of Tonkin Incident

• LBJ was determined to not lose south vietnam to communism

• North vietnamese torpedo boats attacked 2 american destroyers: USS Madix and Turner Joy

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• Allows johnson to escalate the war

• Wants to demonstrate to north vietnam that america will defend south vietnam from communism