Konspekt USA history
· Lyndon Johnson and "Great Society"
In office: 1963 69
Eliminate poverty: tax cuts
Spread the benefits of prosperity to all
Health programmes: Medicare-for elderly,
Medicaid- for poor
Funds for private and public schools
1965- Department of Housing and Urban Development
Aim: loans for low income people to buy, renovate a house
· Civil Rights Movements
Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama
Rosa Parks is arrested
To abolish the bus segragation laws
Private taxi plan
Opposed by city officials and bus companies->Luther pays 500 $
Violence: bombing the homes of the blacks
Forming of the Montgomery Improvement Association M L. King as the president
à Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Worked in South, ninviolent fight for civil rights
Outcome:
- Bus segragation laws of Montgomery are unconstitutional!
Inspired movements for freedom around the globe!
OUTCOME The Civil Rights Act 1964
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