Johnson enacted the commission, appointing former Illinois Governor Otto Kerner Jr as its chairman, to delineate the causes of American unrest unsurprisingly, the report concluded that poverty, segregation, and lack of economic opportunities corroded urban minority neighborhoods while whites fled to middle and upper class suburban environs, taking income and businesses with them. In 1967, following riots that had erupted across urban America, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Remarks of the President at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 22, 1964, in Statements of LBJ, Lyndon B.“Our nation is moving toward two societies, One Black, One White – separate and unequal,” announced the 1968 Kerner Commission. The initiatives outlined above are most similar to the legislative goals of which president? Congressional indifference to voting rights New laws restricting Asian and Hispanic immigrationĬ. Which of the following resulted from the efforts described in the passage above?Ī. Which of the following early 20th-century groups would most likely support the goals stated in the passage above? Johnson, Remarks of the President at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 22, 1964, in Statements of LBJ, Lyndon B. President Lyndon Johnson, Commencement Address at the University of Michigan, 1964 But we need your will, your labor, your hearts, if we are to build that kind of society." We have the power to shape the civilization that we want. It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice, to which we are totally committed in our time.So I want to talk to you today about three places where we begin to build the Great Society-in our cities, in our countryside, and in our classrooms.There are those timid souls who say this battle cannot be won, that we are condemned to a soulless wealth. The Great Society rests on abundance and liberty for all. "For in your time we have the opportunity to move.upward to the Great Society. What earlier movement is most consistent with the sentiments expressed in the quote above? The argument in the passage above is most clearly a demand for the reinstatement of which prior historical development? decision-makers in each of the three branches of government. the efficacy of using federal power to achieve social goals.Ĭ. The author of the quote above most directly attacksī. Post-September 11, 2001, civil rights debates Which landmark development largely ended the possibility of support for the author's goals outlined in the quote above?Ĭ. The Southern Declaration on Integration, March 11, 1956 If done, this is certain to destroy the system of public education in some of the states." Without regard to the consent of the governed, outside agitators are threatening immediate and revolutionary changes in our public school systems. It has planted hatred and suspicion where there has been heretofore friendship and understanding. It is destroying the amicable relations between the white and Negro races that have been created through ninety years of patient effort by the good people of both races. "We regard the decision of the Supreme Court in the school cases as clear abuse of judicial power.This unwarranted exercise of power by the court, contrary to the Constitution is creating chaos and confusion in the states principally affected.
was satisfied with the social programs of the Great Society. supported conservative tax policies and economic deregulation.ĭ. assailed liberals for doing too little for racial injustice.ī. The author of the quote above most likelyĪ. Reprinted by permission of Senator Tom Hayden. Students for a Democratic Society, Port Huron Statement, 1962. The Port Huron Statement, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), 1962 witness other paradoxes.While two-thirds of mankind suffers undernourishment, our own upper class revel amidst superfluous abundance.The search for truly democratic alternatives to the present, and a commitment to social experimentation with them is a worthy and fulfilling human enterprise.As students, for a democratic society, we are committed to simulating this kind of social movement, this kind of vision and program." First, the permeating and victimizing fact of human degradation, symbolized by the Southern struggle against racial bigotry.Second, the enclosing fact of the Cold War symbolized by the presence of the Bomb, brought awareness.of our common peril. "We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit.Our comfort was penetrated by events too troubling to dismiss.
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