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The 1960s Part II. President Johnson The Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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1 The 1960s Part II

2 President Johnson

3 The Civil Rights Act of 1964

4 Election of 1964 Lyndon Johnson Democrat Barry Goldwater Republican

5 The “Great Society”

6 The “Daisy” Ad

7 Election of 1964 Lyndon Johnson Democrat Barry Goldwater Republican Winner

8 The “Great Society” “unconditional war on poverty” Office of Economic Opportunity Volunteers in Service to America Model Cities Food Stamps Project Head Start

9 More “Great Society” Medicare Medicaid National Endowment for the Arts National Endowment for the Humanities Corporation for Public Broadcasting Department of Transportation

10 Berkeley, 1964

11 “The Long, Hot Summers” Los Angeles Cleveland NewarkDetroit Washington, D.C. The Black Panthers “Black Power”

12 The Warren Court Engel vs. Vitale, 1962

13 Engel vs. Vitale, 1962 “Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers and our Country.” "I should like to ask whether we would be far wrong in saying that in this decision the Supreme Court has held that God is unconstitutional and for that reason the public school must be segregated against Him?" Senator Sam Irvin, D-NC

14 The Warren Court Engel vs. Vitale, 1962 Abington Township School District v. Schempp, 1963

15 Miranda v. Arizona, 1966 “Nothing in the letter or the spirit of the Constitution or in the precedents squares with the heavy-handed and one-sided action that is so precipitously taken by the Court in the name of fulfilling its constitutional responsibilities." —Justice John M. Harlan

16 The Warren Court Griswold v. Connecticut, 1965 The Supreme Court finds a “right to privacy” lurking somewhere in “penumbras, formed by emanations” from the Bill of Rights.

17 Vietnam The Tonkin Gulf Incident, August 2-4, 1964

18 Vietnam Retaliatory Strike, August 5, 1964

19 Vietnam The Tonkin Gulf Resolution, August 7, 1964

20 Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don't stand in the doorway Don't block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled There's a battle outside And it is ragin'. It'll soon shake your windows And rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin'. Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land And don't criticize What you can't understand Your sons and your daughters Are beyond your command Your old road is Rapidly agin'. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand For the times they are a-changin'. Bob Dylan, 1964 Bob Dylan

21 Youth Culture in the 1960s The Beatles

22 The Rolling Stones

23 “Psychedelic Rock” Pink Floyd Grateful Dead

24 The “Hippie” Movement Haight-Ashbury, 1967

25 Woodstock, 1969

26 Timothy Leary “Tune in, turn on, drop out.”

27 Vietnam

28 The Anti-War Movement

29 1968

30 The Tet Offensive

31 Tet in the News Media Walter Cronkite “If I've lost Walter Cronkite, I've lost Middle America.” Lyndon Johnson

32 The Election Lyndon B. Johnson Robert F. Kennedy Eugene McCarthy

33 The Election Hubert H. Humphrey George Wallace

34 Meanwhile…

35 Lorraine Motel, Memphis, Tennessee April 4, 1968 James Earl Ray

36 Robert F. Kennedy Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California June 4, 1968 June 5, 1968

37 1968 Democratic National Convention Chicago McCormick Place, site of 1968 Democratic convention Conrad Hilton Hotel, main convention hotel

38 Election of 1868 Hubert Humphrey Democrat George Wallace, American Independent Party Richard Nixon, Republican Winner

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40 Man on the Moon Apollo 8, December 1968 Apollo 11, July 1969


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