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    President Lyndon B. Johnson launched his Great Society program after taking office to combat racial injustice and poverty through new legislation and social programs. As part of this, the 1964 Civil Rights Act outlawed segregation and strengthened protections against racial discrimination. That same year, the Mississippi Freedom Summer project organized black voter registration and "Freedom Schools," but faced violent resistance from whites. At the 1964 Democratic National Convention, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenged the all-white delegation, highlighting ongoing disenfranchisement of blacks. While the Civil Rights Act and social programs from the Great Society made progress, racial inequalities remained entrenched in many parts of the country.

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    President Lyndon B. Johnson launched his Great Society program after taking office to combat racial injustice and poverty through new legislation and social programs. As part of this, the 1964 Civil Rights Act outlawed segregation and strengthened protections against racial discrimination. That same year, the Mississippi Freedom Summer project organized black voter registration and "Freedom Schools," but faced violent resistance from whites. At the 1964 Democratic National Convention, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenged the all-white delegation, highlighting ongoing disenfranchisement of blacks. While the Civil Rights Act and social programs from the Great Society made progress, racial inequalities remained entrenched in many parts of the country.

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    How successful was LBJs

    Great Society?

    Johnson being sworn into office


    after JFKs assassination, 1963

    Civil Rights Act of 1964


    Outlawed segregation in
    public facilities
    Strengthened federal govt
    power to combat racial
    disenfranchisement and
    school segregation
    Created the EEOC (Equal
    Employment
    Opportunities Committee)
    to intervene in cases of job
    discrimination based on
    race, religion, national
    origin and gender

    1964 Election Results

    The Johnson Treatment

    Mississippi Freedom Summer and the MFDP


    (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
    - Organized by SNCC
    - Objectives:
    register black voters in
    Mississippi (the state with
    the lowest % of black
    voters)
    set up Freedom Schools
    as an alternative to
    segregated, underfunded
    schools

    Violence Draws Media


    Attention
    4 civil rights workers killed
    3 blacks in Mississippi
    murdered for their support
    of Freedom Summer
    80 workers beaten
    1062 arrested
    37 black churches
    burned/bombed
    30 black homes
    burned/bombed
    RFK launched an FBI
    investigation

    MFDP: Miss. Freedom Dem. Party


    Blacks in South still largely
    blocked from voting
    MFDP challenged traditional
    Dem Party more directly at the
    DNC 1964 elected 68 delegates
    to convention
    LBJ denied entry to all but 2
    Fanny Lou Hamer: Mr. President, we want to
    register, to become 1st class citizens. If the
    Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party is not
    seated now, I question America. Is this
    America, the land of the free and the home
    of the brave, where we have to sleep with
    our telephones off the hook because our
    lives are threatened daily, because we want
    to live as decent human beings in America?

    LBJs Great Society


    WAR ON POVERTY
    -

    Inspired by Michael Harringtons The Other


    America

    Major Accomplishments of the Great


    Society
    Medicare
    Medicaid
    Elementary and Secondary Education Act
    aid for poor school districts
    Headstart
    New immigration laws, abolishing quotas
    Arts funding
    Funding for higher ed
    Funding for public housing
    Food stamp program
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