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1 Lyndon B. Johnson

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9 Election of 1964  LBJ  “Daisy Girl”  Barry Goldwater  “Hearts” & “Nuts”

10 Great Society  Office of Economic Opportunity  Operation Head Start  Job Corps  Neighborhood Youth Corps  Upward Bound  Model Cities Program

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12 Great Society  Department of Housing and Urban Development  Department of Transportation  Medicare  Medicaid  Elementary and Secondary Education Act  National Endowment for the Arts

13 Great Society  Water Quality Act  Clean Air Act  “Truth in Lending”  “Truth in Advertising”  Immigration Reform

14 Birmingham Campaign

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33 Great Society  Voting Rights Act of 1965  Authorized federal intervention  Civil Rights Act of 1968  Housing and assembly focus

34 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

35 The Cold War Continues  Israel  NATO & France

36 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

37 …a dream deferred?  Legacy of the “Greatest Generation”  Great Depression & WW II  Liberal Consensus  Economic Growth  National Renewal

38 …a dream deferred?  Forgotten by the “American Dream”  African-Americans  Latinos  American Indians  Women  Homosexuals

39 …a dream deferred?  Rejection of the “American Dream”  Consumerism  Militarism  Conventional Morality  Gender Identity

40 …a dream stolen?  John F. Kennedy – November 22, 1963

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42 …a dream stolen?  Malcolm X – February 21, 1965

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44 …a dream stolen?  Martin Luther King, Jr. – April 4, 1968

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46 …a dream stolen?  Robert Kennedy – June 5, 1968

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48 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

49 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

50 …does it explode?  Race Riots  Short Term Causes  Police Brutality  Assassinations  Long Term Causes  Institutionalized Racism  Urban Poverty

51 Race Riots: Watts

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53 Race Riots: Newark

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57 Race Riots: Detriot

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61 Race Riots: Washington, DC

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66 Riots: Chicago Democratic National Convention

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70 Forgotten: Black Power  Nation of Islam & Malcolm X

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72 Forgotten: Latinos  Cesar Chavez  National Farm Workers Association  Si Se Puede or Yes we can.

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74 Forgotten: American Indians  American Indian Movement (AIM)

75 Forgotten: Women  Rebirth of Feminism  Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

76 Forgotten: Homosexuals  Stonewall Riots – Greenwich Village NYC

77 Rejection  “Hippies”

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79 Rejection  Drugs “Turn on, Tune in, and Drop out.”

80 Rejection  Haight-Ashbury – San Francisco

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82 Rejection  Woodstock

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85 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?


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