Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
•Johnson convinces congress to pass Kennedy’s Civil Rights Bill
•It allowed the gov’t to cut off funding to any program that practiced discrimination
•Created VISTA to battle poverty
•The Voting Rights Act: Outlawed the literacy tests needed in order to register to vote
•It allowed the gov’t to cut off funding to any program that practiced discrimination
•Created VISTA to battle poverty
•The Voting Rights Act: Outlawed the literacy tests needed in order to register to vote
Question
without Johnson's reforms how would black rights been prolonged?
Grave social crisis confronted the nation. Racial segregation persisted throughout the South. The Civil Rights Movement was gathering momentum, and in 1964 urban riots began within black neighborhoods in New York City and Los Angeles; by 1968 hundreds of cities had major riots that caused a severe conservative political backlash.