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Civil Rights Vietnam War Review
Civil rights Act of
1964
Outlawed discrimination based on a
persons race, origin, gender, or
religion
Lyndon Johnson
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President 1963-1969
Remembered for
• Great Society programs
• Vietnam War
• Lyndon Baines Johnson moved quickly to establish himself in the office of the Presidency. Despite
his conservative voting record in the Senate, Johnson soon reacquainted himself with his liberal
roots. LBJ sponsored the largest reform agenda since Roosevelt's New Deal.
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The aftershock of Kennedy's assassination provided a climate for Johnson to complete the
unfinished work of JFK's New Frontier. He had eleven months before the election of 1964 to prove
to American voters that he deserved a chance to be President in his own right.
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Two very important pieces of legislation were passed. First, the Civil Rights Bill that JFK promised
to sign was passed into law. The Civil Rights Act banned discrimination based on race and gender
in employment and ending segregation in all public facilities.
Roy Benavidez
• Heroically saved the lives of 8 people
• What award did he win?
Congressional Medal of Honor
Master Sergeant Raul (Roy) Perez Benavidez (August 5, 1935 – November 29,
1998) was a former member of the United States Army Special Forces (Studies and
Observations Group) and retired United States Army master sergeant who received
the Medal of Honor (1981) for his valorous actions in combat near Lộc Ninh, South
Vietnam on May 2, 1968.
Cuba and the 1960’s
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Bay of Pigs
• Failed invasion of Cuba
• Done by U.S. trained Cuban exiles
• 1961 was a failed military invasion of
Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored
paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17
April 1961. A counter-revolutionary
military, trained and funded by the United
States government's Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA), Brigade
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Soviets building
missile sites on Cuba
• U.S. blockades Cuba
• Peace agreements:
• US promised not to
invade Cuba
• Soviets promised to
destroy missile sites
• Voting Rights of 1965
• Eliminated discrimination in
Voting Rights- Literacy tests
Literacy tests
• Response to Vietnam
War
• Response to Gulf of
Tonkin Resolution
• Set guidelines to how
President could
manage troops
• Limited Presidents
powers
War powers Act
• Response to Vietnam War
• High School students were protesting by wearing an arm band
• School’s response is to this is by banning arm bands
• Court Decision: Freedom of Speech does not end when you go
to the school
Effect: Individual freedoms are protected
Tinker vs. Des Moines School District
• Issue: Mexican Americans not allowed to serve on jury
• Issue: Do Mexican Americans need protection under 14th
Amendment
• Decision: That Mexican Americans are protected under 14th
Amendment
Effect: Individual Freedoms are Protected under the Constitution
Hernandez v. Texas
Berlin Airlift
Peace Corps
• Berlin blockade and airlift,
international crisis that arose from
an attempt by the Soviet Union, in
1948–49, to force the Western
Allied powers (the United States,
the United Kingdom, and France)
to abandon their post-World War
II jurisdictions in West Berlin.
• On March 1, 1961, President John F.
Kennedy issues Executive Order
#10924, establishing the Peace Corps
as a new agency within the
Department of State. The same day, he
sent a message to Congress asking for
permanent funding for the agency,
which would send trained American
men and women to foreign nations to
assist in development efforts
1960 Groups
Founded in 1962 by
Cesar Chavez, the
United Farm Workers
of America is the
nation's first successful
and largest farm
workers union. This
group fought to make
economic and political
opportunities for all
nationalities.
American Indian Movement The
American Indian Movement (AIM)
is a Native American advocacy group in the United States,
founded in 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with an agenda
that focuses on spirituality, leadership, and sovereignty. The
founders included Dennis Banks, George Mitchell, Herb
Powless, Clyde Bellecourt, Harold Goodsky, Eddie BentonBanai, and a number of others in the Minneapolis Native
American community. Russell Means, born Oglala Lakota,
was an early leader in 1970s protests.
United Farm Workers
Union
Change Stereotypes
• The Chicano Movement encompassed
a broad cross section of issues—from
restoration of land grants, to farm
workers' rights, to enhanced education,
to voting and political rights, as well
as emerging awareness of collective
history. Socially, the Chicano
Movement addressed what it perceived
to be negative ethnic stereotypes of
Mexicans in mass media and the
American consciousness.
Mexican American
Chicano Movement
Supported
Opposed
• Non violence
• Equal rights- I have a dream
Speech
• Civil Disobedience
• He was in Montgomery at the
start of the Montgomery Bus
Boycott
• The same tactic - a non-violent
response to violence - was also
used by the Freedom Riders in
their campaign to desegregate
• All violence
• Racism
• Political injustices
transport.
Martin Luther King
Gave the US an advantage in locating Targets
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The GPS project was developed in 1973 to
overcome the limitations of previous navigation
systems,[2] integrating ideas from several
predecessors, including a number of classified
engineering design studies from the 1960s. GPS
was created and realized by the U.S. Department of
Defense (DoD) and was originally run with 24
satellites. It became fully operational in 1995.
Bradford Parkinson, Roger L. Easton, and Ivan A.
Getting are credited with inventing
Technology & the US Navy
• American’s rioted and wanted peace.
• John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Viet man War Era
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Cesar Chavez (born César Estrada Chávez, locally:
[ˈsesaɾ esˈtɾaða ˈtʃaβes]; March 31, 1927 – April 23,
1993) was an American farm worker, labor leader
and civil rights activist, who, with Dolores Huerta,
co-founded the National Farm Workers Association
(later the United Farm Workers union,
A Mexican American, Chavez became the best
known Latino American civil rights activist, and
was strongly promoted by the American labor
movement, which was eager to enroll Hispanic
members. His public-relations approach to
unionism and aggressive but nonviolent tactics
made the farm workers' struggle a moral cause with
nationwide support. By the late 1970s, his tactics
had forced growers to recognize the UFW as the
bargaining agent for 50,000 field workers in
California and Florida. However, by the mid-1980s
membership in the UFW had dwindled to around
15,000.
Caesar Chavez