The 1960s

Part II

President Johnson

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

Election of 1964

Lyndon JohnsonDemocrat

Barry GoldwaterRepublican

The “Great Society”

The “Daisy” Ad

Election of 1964

Lyndon JohnsonDemocrat

Barry GoldwaterRepublican

Winner

The “Great Society”

• “unconditional war on poverty”• Office of Economic Opportunity• Volunteers in Service to America• Model Cities• Food Stamps• Project Head Start

More “Great Society”

• Medicare• Medicaid• National Endowment for the Arts• National Endowment for the Humanities• Corporation for Public Broadcasting• Department of Transportation

Berkeley, 1964

“The Long, Hot Summers”

Los AngelesClevelandNewarkDetroitWashington, D.C.The Black Panthers“Black Power”

The Warren Court

• Engel vs. Vitale, 1962

The Warren Court

• Engel vs. Vitale, 1962

“Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers and our Country.”

"I should like to ask whether we would be far wrong in saying that in this decision the Supreme Court has held that God is unconstitutional and for that reason the public school must be segregated against Him?" Senator Sam Irvin, D-NC

The Warren Court

• Engel vs. Vitale, 1962• Abington Township School District v.

Schempp, 1963

The Warren Court

• Miranda v. Arizona, 1966

“Nothing in the letter or the spirit of the Constitution or in the precedents squares with the heavy-handed and one-sided action that is so precipitously taken by the Court in the name of fulfilling its constitutional responsibilities."

—Justice John M. Harlan

The Warren Court

• Griswold v. Connecticut, 1965The Supreme Court finds a “right to privacy” lurking somewhere in “penumbras, formed by emanations” from the Bill of Rights.

VietnamThe Tonkin Gulf Incident, August 2-4, 1964

VietnamRetaliatory Strike, August 5, 1964

VietnamThe Tonkin Gulf Resolution,

August 7, 1964

Come senators, congressmenPlease heed the callDon't stand in the doorwayDon't block up the hallFor he that gets hurtWill be he who has stalledThere's a battle outsideAnd it is ragin'.It'll soon shake your windowsAnd rattle your wallsFor the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathersThroughout the landAnd don't criticizeWhat you can't understandYour sons and your daughtersAre beyond your commandYour old road isRapidly agin'.Please get out of the new oneIf you can't lend your handFor the times they are a-changin'.

Bob Dylan, 1964

Bob Dylan

Youth Culture in the 1960s

The Beatles

The Rolling Stones

“Psychedelic Rock”

Pink Floyd

Grateful Dead

The “Hippie” Movement

Haight-Ashbury, 1967

Woodstock, 1969

Timothy Leary

“Tune in, turn on, drop out.”

Vietnam

The Anti-War Movement

1968

The Tet Offensive

Tet in the News Media

Walter Cronkite“If I've lost Walter Cronkite, I've lost Middle America.”

Lyndon Johnson

The Election

Lyndon B. JohnsonRobert F. KennedyEugene McCarthy

The Election

Hubert H. HumphreyGeorge Wallace

Meanwhile…

Lorraine Motel, Memphis, TennesseeApril 4, 1968

James Earl Ray

Robert F. KennedyAmbassador Hotel, Los Angeles, CaliforniaJune 4, 1968

June 5, 1968

1968 Democratic National ConventionChicago

McCormick Place, site of 1968 Democratic conventionConrad Hilton Hotel, main convention hotel

Election of 1868

Hubert HumphreyDemocrat

George Wallace,American

Independent Party

Richard Nixon,Republican

Winner

Man on the Moon

Apollo 8, December 1968

Apollo 11, July 1969