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Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnson meets with Sen. Richard Russell Photo: Yoichi R. Okamoto, 1963
Election of 1964
LBJ “Daisy Girl”
Barry Goldwater “Hearts” & “Nuts”
Great Society
Office of Economic Opportunity Operation Head Start Job Corps Neighborhood Youth Corps Upward Bound Model Cities Program
Great Society
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Department of Transportation Medicare Medicaid Elementary and Secondary
Education Act National Endowment for the Arts
Great Society
Water Quality Act Clean Air Act “Truth in Lending” “Truth in Advertising” Immigration Reform
Birmingham Campaign
Great Society
Voting Rights Act of 1965 Authorized federal intervention
Civil Rights Act of 1968 Housing and assembly focus
The Warren Court
Bond v. Floyd The New York Times v. Sullivan Roth v. United States Engel v. Vitale Gideon v. Wainwright Miranda v. Arizona Griswald v. Connecticut
The Cold War Continues
Israel NATO & France
Lennox Avenue Mural
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore – And then run?Does it stink like rotten meat?Or crust and sugar over – like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Langston Hughes
…a dream deferred?
Legacy of the “Greatest Generation” Great Depression & WW II Liberal Consensus Economic Growth National Renewal
…a dream deferred?
Forgotten by the “American Dream” African-Americans Latinos American Indians Women Homosexuals
…a dream deferred?
Rejection of the “American Dream” Consumerism Militarism Conventional Morality Gender Identity
…a dream stolen?
John F. Kennedy – November 22, 1963
…a dream stolen?
Malcolm X – February 21, 1965
…a dream stolen?
Martin Luther King, Jr. – April 4, 1968
…a dream stolen?
Robert Kennedy – June 5, 1968
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our despair against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus
Forgotten: African - Americans
Modern Civil Rights Movement Direction
Direct Action v. Voter Registration Political Rights v. Human Rights
Registration v. Education Voting v. Working Elections v. Housing
Results Negotiated v. Absolute Use of Violence
…does it explode?
Race Riots Short Term Causes
Police Brutality Assassinations
Long Term Causes Institutionalized Racism Urban Poverty
Race Riots: Watts
Race Riots: Newark
Race Riots: Detriot
Race Riots: Washington, DC
Riots: ChicagoDemocratic National Convention
Forgotten: Black Power
Nation of Islam & Malcolm X
Forgotten: Latinos
Cesar Chavez National Farm Workers Association Si Se Puede or Yes we can.
Forgotten: American Indians
American Indian Movement (AIM)
Forgotten: Women
Rebirth of Feminism Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
Forgotten: Homosexuals
Stonewall Riots – Greenwich Village NYC
Rejection
“Hippies”
Rejection
Drugs
“Turn on, Tune in, and Drop out.”
Rejection
Haight-Ashbury – San Francisco
Rejection
Woodstock
Counterculture
In your school...
In America today…
Who has been forgotten by the dominant culture?
Who is rejecting the dominant culture?
How do we know?