HIST 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 47: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Huey P. Newton, National Origins Formula
24 Mar 2016
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1963 march on washington: for jobs and freedom . Mlk"s famous i have a dream speech . Organized to highlight the economic subordinaion of the negro and advance a broad and fundamental program for economic jusice . Lyndon johnson as his successor: uses kennedy"s momentum and legacy to push forward civil rights acts, member of house during late 30s, senate major leader in 50s, master bargainer. Agenda: civil rights, economic inequality, uncondiional war on poverty in america . Biparisan civil rights act of 1964: government guarantees of reconstrucion amendments, voing rights, end to segregaion, address to walk on washington, government actually puing weight on reconstrucion amendments. Goldwater: opposiion to civil rights act: a gross misuse of government power, un- American, overtaking state power: dismantling of new deal state, eg. privaize tva, stronger anicommunism abroad, loses, but mobilise many white suburban homeowners.
