Moving On: The American
People Since 1946
Chapters 7 & 8:
“Great Society and Vietnam”
&
“Rebellion and Reaction”
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
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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
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: Chicago
Democratic 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?