Vice Pres LBJ takes the reins…

• The Great Society– LBJ sworn in on

Air Force One– Continues JFK

plans– War on Poverty

• Pg 858

– A new New Deal ?• Too

expensive?• A needed

expense ?

Chap 29

Civil Rights

How it began……• 1896 – Plessy v. Ferguson –

Separate but Equal• NAACP fights to

overturn segregation–Attorney Thurgood Marshall– Future Supreme Ct Justice

Eisenhower years• Brown v Board of

Education 5/54– South challenges

• Rosa Parks - Dec 1955– Montgomery Bus Boycott– Martin Luther King 26 yr

old Pastor• Southern Christian

Leadership Conference

A nation torn from within• Little Rock Central HS, AR 1957– Gov defies Supreme Ct /

Constitution– National Guard called to enforce

segregation– Ike steps in• Sends in the Army• Stay all school year

– Civil Rights Act 1957• Civil Rights Division of DoJ