vice pres lbj takes the reins… the great society – lbj sworn in on air force one – continues...
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Vice Pres LBJ takes the reins…
• The Great Society– LBJ sworn in on
Air Force One– Continues JFK
plans– War on Poverty
• Pg 858
– A new New Deal ?• Too
expensive?• A needed
expense ?
Chap 29
Civil Rights
How it began……• 1896 – Plessy v. Ferguson –
Separate but Equal• NAACP fights to
overturn segregation–Attorney Thurgood Marshall– Future Supreme Ct Justice
Eisenhower years• Brown v Board of
Education 5/54– South challenges
• Rosa Parks - Dec 1955– Montgomery Bus Boycott– Martin Luther King 26 yr
old Pastor• Southern Christian
Leadership Conference
A nation torn from within• Little Rock Central HS, AR 1957– Gov defies Supreme Ct /
Constitution– National Guard called to enforce
segregation– Ike steps in• Sends in the Army• Stay all school year
– Civil Rights Act 1957• Civil Rights Division of DoJ
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