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Lyndon' Johnson’s Talents
Is incredibly good at getting laws through, becomes the Senate majority leader and is dubbed “Master of the Senate” while in Congress
Conservatism
Limiting the scope of the federal government and promoting self-sufficiency
Barry Goldwater
The candidate that opposed LBJ in the 1964 election and had embodied conservatist beliefs, sparking a resurgence of conservatism
Modern Conservative Movement in Politics
Due to Barry Goldwater’s resurgence, the liberal vs. conservative movement in the U.S. continues to be a hotly debated subject in today’s society
Great Society
Domestic policy that Lyndon Johnson pushed, idolizing JFK and using his death to push through new legislation while also modeling his approach after FDR
“War on Poverty”
LBJ was determined to remove poverty in the U.S. as part of the Great Society, which included reforms like the Appalachian Regional Development Act which pumped 1 billion dollars into the area to fight against poverty
VISTA
The Volunteers in Service to America program provided stipends for volunteers to work in deprived domestic communities
1964 Economic Opportunity Act
An act that created the Head Start program, which was designed to help young children in low income families get a literal head start on their education
Civil Rights Act of 1964
An act that prohibited racial discrimination and segregation based upon race in any situation, gets amended later to include different minorities as well
Voting Rights Act of 1965
An act that prohibited racial discrimination in voting, outlawing literacy tests and other forms of voter disenfranchisement
Immigration Act of 1965
An act that abolished the quota system, making it easier for refugees and immigrants to come to the US
Medicare/Medicaid
Medicare is a program that says that the government will pay for health insurance at a certain age, Medicaid is similar but it applies to kids and families that live in poverty
Brown v. Board of Education
A supreme court case involving 5 separate lawsuits centered around racial segregation in schools, decided that all schools have to integrate and with “all deliberate speed”, removing the Plessy v. Ferguson decision
Massive Resistance
Southern pushback to integration in schools after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, usually leading to further segregation or closing schools altogether
Southern Manifesto
A document that 101 Congress members signed saying that the Court overreached its power, encouraging all states to resist its decision
Citizen Councils
Congregations of white elites that use economic oppression to hinder African-Americans and pushback against school integration
Prince Edward Co., Virginia
The county where Barbara Johns, a student at Moton HS, organized a school wide strike against segregation and where massive resistance also struck hardest following the Brown decision, as their schools closed for 5 years and private academies popped up instead
Little Rock Nine
A group of nine black students who supported integration and governor Orval Faubas used the Arkansas National Guard to prevent it, prompting Eisenhower to sent in 1,000 federal troops to allow them to integrate, however, Faubas closed the schools the following year
Self-Purification
MLK’s principal of accepting hate and blows and not retaliating, thereby putting the civil rights movement above your ego
Emmitt Till
A black 14 year old from Chicago visiting his cousins in rural Mississippi in 1955 that was falsely accused of catcalling a white convenience store worker, which led to her husband and his friends brutally murdering him. His funeral was open casket, which awakened Americans to the true extent of Southern racism
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, leading to her arrest and prompting MLK to boycott the buses in Montgomery, launching MLK to national fame after its success
SCLC
An organization started by MLK that coordinates southern black ministers to push the civil rights movement forward, meshing well with black church communities
Sit-ins
A protest method started in Greensboro, NC and used throughout the civil rights movement where protesters would sit in whites only lunch counters and wait to receive violent rebuttal
SNCC
An organization filled with college students that coordinated sit-ins and other demonstrations, also coordinated practices before their demonstrations
Freedom Riders
An organization of people that would ride on desegregated buses to check on how segregation actually dissolved in them
Birmingham Boycott
A boycott of Birmingham merchants and a march throughout the city that MLK selected due to threats of police violence from white supremacist Eugene “Bull” Connor, which ended in massive amounts police brutality involving fire hoses, attack dogs, tear gas, and cattle prods
Medgar Evers
An important and instrumental leader in civil rights that supported MLK in the background but was assassinated midway through the movement
Selma March
A nonviolent march from Selma to Montgomery as part of the civil rights movement that was met with backlash, police brutality, and mob violence that even killed some, however, continuous marches happened until LBJ sends in troops to protect them on their third attempt
Watts Riots
A race riot in LA that started over a scuffle between two black men and a white officer, erupting into total mob violence on both sides where 34 die and 4,000 are imprisoned
Kerner Commission
A government investigation into the cause of the recent race riot explosions, saw it to be caused by racial tension and oppression
Black Power
A branch of the civil rights movement that focused on pride in African-American racial heritage and oppression in urban society, also supported violence in self-defence
Malcolm X
A preacher for the Nation of Islam that was a renowned head of the Black Power movement
Black Nationalism
The belief of black superiority that went to extreme conclusions, such as supporting segregation in order to have self-governance, which they believed would create true equality
Nation of Islam
An organization that believed in heavy Black Nationalism where Malcolm X was a preacher
Stokely Carmichael
An important Black Power figure that was once the head of SNCC but then broke off to join the Black Power movement
Huey Newton/Eldgridge Cleaver
Important heads and figures within the Black Panther party
Black Panthers
An organization that culminated the Black Power movement into an organized group
MLK
Once a preacher for Rosa Parks, MLK becomes the major leader of the civil rights movement until his assassination in 1969, using speeches such as his “I Have a Dream Speech” to inspire black Americans
Difference in civil rights from 1950-1964 to 1964-1970
Between 1950-1964, most civil rights movement protesters were united under MLK, but because of race riots, they split off into different groups by 1964, namely the Black Power movement
Legacy of Containment
Containment had been used for each and every major Cold War event, and was upheld from Truman to Nixon and used in the Vietnam war
Ho Chi Minh
The leader of the Marxist Communist movement in Vietnam in 1941 and the leader of the self-proclaimed independent country in 1945
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
A Congressional act passed out after a skirmish in North Vietnamese waters where we had vessels there to spy and we attack their ships in the waters, gave the president the power to take all necessary measures to repel any Vietnamese attack against the U.S.
Vietcong
Also known as the National Liberation Front, the North Vietnamese army of communist guerillas
Tet Offensive
Previously, the North Vietnamese would truce on every Vietnamese New Year and would temporarily be peaceful, however, they disregard it in 1968, ambushing 100 towns, we push back with Gen. Westmoreland and win, but Americans at home realized how the war would be more endless and brutal than it was made out to be, resulting in the opposition of continued involvement
Credibility Gap
A term used for the American lack of belief in their government
Anti-War Movement
A series of protests and political discontent that aimed to end American involvement in Vietnam
Students for a Democratic Society
An organization of university students that was known to voice their objections to the Vietnam war
Free Speech Movement
A group of university students at the University of California at Berkeley that objected and protested against the Vietnam war
Port Huron Statement
A statement issued by students led by activist Jon Hayden that condemned the Vietnam war and chastised the Johnson administration for pushing young men to serve in Southeast Asia against their will
Draft Protest
A protest led by MLK where anti-war protestors would march from Central Park to the UN building while another 100,000 protestors marched at the Pentagon
Eugene McCarthy
The Democratic nominee in 1968 that represented the anti-war sentiment of Americans
Robert F. Kennedy
The brother of JFK that was supportive of civil rights and the war on poverty and was anti-war, but was sadly assassinated before he was able to campaign
Hubert Humphrey
The Democratic nominee in 1968 that would represent pro-Vietnam involvement for America, and the eventual winner of the Democratic running for president
Counterculture
Things that were against the mainstream culture, such as communal living experiments, alternative music, sex before marriage, or recreational drug usage in the 1960s
1968 Democratic National Convention
A convention to decide which Democratic nominee would run for president, however, it was disturbed by violent protest over the Vietnam war by the Youth International Party
George Wallace/American Independent Party
The governor of Alabama who was incredibly racist and infamously blocked doors to the University of Alabama to prevent black students from college and who also ran for president in 1968 on a platform of white supremacy known as the American Independent Party
Richard Nixon
Our 37th president in 1968 who was a conservatist Republican that promised “peace with honor” and law and order to America, getting us away from involvement in Vietnam
Vietnamization
Nixon’s plan to get our troops out of Vietnam which involved turning over all of the fighting to the South Vietnamese army, spawning four years of negotiation and cease fire agreements
My Lai Massacre
A village in North Vietnam that Americans attack and burn and murder all the villagers in in 1968, the military covers it up until 1970 where it is leaked, sparking outrage at home
Kent State Massacre
The Students for a Democratic Society leads a protest at Kent State University in Ohio, the national guard is called in and they open fire after rocks are thrown at them, leading to Congress repealing the Gulf of Tonkin resolution
Pentagon Papers
The NYT rolled out a series of essays leaked by Daniel Ellsburg, a former government employee who had info about Vietnam and LBJ’s presidency, which makes it clear that Johnson lied to the public, sparking outcry
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