Chapter 29 - Civil Rights, Vietnam, and the Ordeal of Liberalism

Martin Luther King Jr

________, in one of the greatest speeches of his distinguished oratorical career, roused the crowd with a litany of images prefaced again and again by the phrase "I have a dream ..

Kennedy assassination

The ________ was a national trauma- a defining event for almost everyone old enough to be aware of it.

Mississippi

During the summer of 1964, thousands of civil rights workers, black and white, northern and southern, spread out through the South, but primarily in ________, to work on behalf of black voter registration and participation.

Johnson

The ________ administration also supported the Immigration Act of 1965, one of the most important pieces of legislation of the 1960s.

US government

The ________ supported South Vietnamese President Diems refusal in 1956 to permit the elections called for by the Geneva accords (see above), reasoning, correctly, that Ho Chi Minh would easily win any such election From Aid to Intervention.

Lyndon Johnson

________ thus inherited what was already a substantial American commitment to the survival of an anti- communist South Vietnam.

Medicare

________ and Medicaid were early steps in a much larger assault on poverty.

John Kennedy

________ had long been sympathetic to the cause of racial justice, but he was hardly a committed crusader.

presidential campaign

The ________ of 1960 produced two young candidates who claimed to offer the nation active leadership.

Lee Harvey Oswald

________, who appeared to be a confused and embittered Marxist, was arrested for the crime later that day, and then mysteriously murdered by a Dallas nightclub owner, Jack Ruby, two days later.

Community Action

________ was an effort to involve members of poor communities themselves in the planning and administration of the programs designed to help them.

Vietnam

In the mid- nineteenth century, ________ became a colony of France.

Malcolm

________ became one of the movements most influential spokesmen, particularly among younger blacks, as a result of his intelligence, his oratorical skills, and his harsh, uncompromising opposition to all forms of racism and oppression.

interracial civil rights

The march was the high- water mark of the peaceful, ________ movement.

Robert Kennedy

________, much more than John, shaped what some would later call the "Kennedy legacy, "a set of ideas that would for a time become central to American liberalism The Conservative Response.

large race riot

The first ________ since the end of World War II occurred the following summer in the Watts section of Los Angeles.

Civil Rights Act

________ of 1965, better known as the Voting Rights Act, provided federal protection to blacks attempting to exercise their right to vote.

Johnson

________ was a man who believed in the active use of power.

Martin Luther King Jr

On April 4, ________, who had traveled to Memphis, Tennessee, to lend his support to striking black sanitation workers in the city, was shot and killed while standing on the balcony of his motel.

Vietnam

________ had a long history both as an independent kingdom and a major power in its region and as a subjugated province of China.

Johnson

________ was a native of the poor "hill country "of west Texas and had risen to become majority leader of the U.S. Senate by dint of extraordinary, even obsessive, effort and ambition.