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__Civil Rights (Kennedy)__ __Assassination__ __LBJ Brand__ __Great Society Congress__ 2. Medicaid for Poor and Medicare for elderly 3. Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (stopped immigration quota system and shifted immigration to Latin America and Asia) 4. Voting Rights Bill __Battling for Black Rights__ __Black Power__ __Combating Communism__ __Vietnam Topples Johnson__
 * Believed in racial justice
 * Freedom Riders attempted to end segregation
 * Voter Education Project to give Southern blacks right to vote
 * Martin Luther King Jr. = campaigned against discrimination in Birmingham, Alabama and encountered opposition
 * Kennedy televised speech called for new legislationto protect black citizens
 * Shot in Dallas, Texas
 * Alleged assassin = Lee Harvey Oswald
 * Johnson sworn in as President
 * Nation steeped in sorrow
 * Civil Rights Act of 1964= banned racial discrimination in private facilities open to public and strengthened government power to end segregation
 * Equal Employment Opportunity Commission= created to stop job discrimination
 * Proposed "War on Poverty" and domestic program called "The Great Society"
 * Created The Department of Housing and Urban Development
 * "Big Four" achievements = 1. Funding for Schools
 * Voting Rights Act of 1965 lessened racial discrimination and gave blacks greater power without fear of punishment
 * Civil Rights Act of 1964 allowed desegregation of schools and prohibited discrimination in public
 * Twenty-Fourth Amendment abolished poll tax in federal elections
 * Malcolm X = preached black separatism and fighting against whites
 * "Black Power" = some said it means political and economic rights for blacks but others said it meant black separatism
 * Riots in Urban Areas with violence
 * Dominicans revolted and Americans said that it was a communist coup (America dispatched troops)
 * Tonkin Gulf Resolution= handed President the power to declare further force in Southeast Asia
 * Vietnam= Viet Cong attacked American base in South Vietnam (ordered bomb raidings and invasion of North Vietnam and increased soldiers)
 * Viet Cong attacked 27 South Vietnamese cities and capital Saigon
 * Americans unhappy with war
 * March 31, 1968= scaled down troops and amount of bombings
 * North Vietnam agreed to negotiate in Paris