Social Sciences and History / Unit 2 SSH 0136 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Great Society and the Civil Rights Acts
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The idea
Johnson's Great Society and war on poverty funded education, job training and community development. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of nineteen sixty-four, the Voting Rights Act of sixty-five, and the Civil Rights Act of sixty-eight.
In practice
Sit-ins, freedom rides and marches by CORE, SCLC and SNCC.
Where people slip
Vietnam undermined the Great Society; slow change turned many toward Black Power and the Chicano Movement.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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