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War on poverty
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The Subversive Fifties
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Kennedy, Johnson, and the Great Society
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The Civil-Rights Movement
Relevant pages: Resource Type: Document-Based Question Dissent and social protest characterize the 1960s. Enduring images of the decade recall its civil-rights marches, antiwar protests, and rallies of members of various social grouips—women, farmworkers, American Indians—calling for greater justice. The documents within the DBQ represent a variety of voices, illustrating the tensions between countercultural movements of the 1960s and conservative reactions against them. This DBQ contextualizes the debates of the 1960s within a longer-term analysis of the divisions between left and right in the United States since the beginning of the Cold War. Poverty Resource Type: Primary Source Cover of a 1963 paperback edition of The Other America: Poverty in the United States by Michael Harrington. This book was first published in 1962. Poverty Resource Type: Primary Source Michael Harrington, author. Poverty: Structural Poverty Resource Type: Primary Source Boy amid demolished slums, New York City (1961). Poverty: Structural Poverty Resource Type: Primary Source Man looks out over slums in Detroit. Poverty: Structural Poverty Resource Type: Primary Source Slums, Omaha, Nebraska. Poverty: Structural Poverty Resource Type: Primary Source Slums in Appalachia. Poverty: Structural Poverty Resource Type: Primary Source Girl in a slum area of Washington, D.C. Poverty: Why the Attention? Resource Type: Primary Source Teenage mother attends class with her baby (1971). America Since 1945—E-Seminar 4, The Subversive Fifties Resource Type: E-Seminar In The Subversive Fifties, the fourth e-seminar in the series America Since 1945, the eminent historian Alan Brinkley discusses a variety of early counterculture movements—literary, social, and environmental—whose origins date back to the 1950s and early 1960s. He also covers the roots of the civil-rights movement, discussing the Montgomery bus boycott, in which Martin Luther King Jr. first gained national attention. The Great Society Resource Type: Primary Source President Johnson visits a resident of Appalachia during his poverty tour (1964). The Great Society Resource Type: Primary Source Head Start class in the Bronx, New York City (1969). The Great Society: The War on Poverty Resource Type: Primary Source Poster for the Job Corps program of the Office of Economic Opportunity (c. 1970). Conclusion Resource Type: Primary Source Street in the Bronx, New York City (1990). America Since 1945—E-Seminar 5, Kennedy, Johnson, and the Great Society Resource Type: E-Seminar In Kennedy, Johnson, and the Great Society, the fifth e-seminar in the series America Since 1945, the eminent historian Alan Brinkley focuses on the administrations of Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Professor Brinkley compares and contrasts these two great figures of the 1960s and analyzes the social programs, such as the Great Society and the war on poverty, that became landmarks of the period. President Johnson's Commencement Address Resource Type: Primary Source President Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–73) made this landmark speech in 1965 to students at Howard University in Washington, D.C., a historically black institution, to delineate the tenets of his Great Society program. The Civil-Rights Movement Resource Type: Document-Based Question The civil-rights movement shifted from nonviolent civil disobedience to "black power." The rich selection of primary sources will help students explore the philosophies of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, the differences between the African American experience in the North and in the South, the role of government and political institutions, as well as global movements against imperialism. To Fulfill These Rights Resource Type: Primary Source President Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–73) made this landmark speech to students at Howard University in Washington, D.C., a historically black institution, to outline the Great Society program. Beyond Vietnam Resource Type: Primary Source This speech was delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City. The Counterculture Resource Type: Document-Based Question Although the decade of the 1950s deserves its reputation as an age of political, social, and cultural conformity, seeds of social discontent nevertheless permeated American society. This carefully crafted DBQ focuses on the intellectual and artisitic critics of the affluent society, as well as the origins of the women's and civil-rights movements. The Affluent Soceiety: Public vs. Private Sectors Resource Type: Primary Source John Kenneth Galbraith, a prominent Harvard economist, outlined in this article the necessary balance that should exist between the private and public sectors of the American economy. The Other America Resource Type: Primary Source With this book, writer and social activist Michael Harrington helped launch the New Left movement of the 1960s and its concerns about American poverty and social injustice. | |
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