The Great Society of Lyndon Baines Johnson
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Today's Daily Dose short history film covers U.S. President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society movement, which created an avalanche of progressive laws. The filmmaker has included the original voice over script to further assist your understanding:
Today on The Daily Dose, The Great Society of Lyndon Baines Johnson.
To look back before the legislative reforms of LBJ’s Great Society movement of the 1960s, American life before his directives was a very different place. He saw racial discrimination and poverty as moral issues, not just political talking points to be debated but not acted upon.
Insert LBJ’s speech “unconditional war on poverty in America.” U of M 1964
The Great Society was a cluster of progressive programs undertaken by the president and Congress, which generated great hope among the downtrodden and the disillusioned. It was quixotic and arthurian, this idea of might for right, inspiring programs for social justice that still resonate to this day. The war on poverty was part of an idea that you had not a hand out but a hand up. In the Nineteen Sixties it was hardscrabble for a lot of Americans, and what the war on poverty meant for these people was jobs, bringing the less affluent into the mainstream of society. When Lyndon Johnson became president, the poverty rate teetered at a staggering 22 percent, compared to 9.2 percent today. By the time he left office five years later, the poverty rate was less than 13 percent, which constituted the greatest one-time reduction in the history of the United States.
Johnson and civil rights groups managed to pass The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which comprised the first major civil rights legislation since 1875. The act said that public accommodations have to be available to everybody without discrimination on the basis of race, and with one fell swoop, Johnson’s Great Society movement wiped out all the white’s only signs in the segregated south.
Perhaps the greatest benefit of Johnson’s Great Society was Medicare, for before its time, people who reached the age of 65 had no guaranteed health insurance, while today, after LBJ and Congress passed the Medicare Act, in 2021, some 63 million senior Americans are enrolled in Medicare.
Scroll LBJ’s legislation achievements.
While most presidents are happy to have one or two pieces of significant legislation attached to their legacy, Johnson pushed through an uncanny amount of impactful laws, which altered the face and very fabric of the nation up to this day.
Insert the final seconds of LBJ’s U of M ’64 speech “abundance and liberty for all.”
And there you have it, LBJ’s Great Society movement, today on The Daily Dose.
Johnson’s legislative achievements:
Neighborhood Youth Corps
Volunteers in Service to America
Model Cities Program
Upward Bound
Food Stamp Act of 1964
Community Action Program
Community Action Agencies
Head Start
Amendments to Social Security
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Higher Education Act of 1965
Teacher Corps
Bilingual Education Act of 1968
Medicare & Medicaid
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Humanities
Public Broadcasting Act of 1967
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
National Public Radio
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964
High Speed Ground Transportation Act of 1965
National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966
Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act of 1965
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Fair Packaging and Labeling Act
Wholesale Meat Act of 1967
Truth-in-Lending Act of 1968
Water Quality Act of 1965
Clean Air Act of 1963
Wilderness Act of 1964
Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966
National Trails System Act of 1968
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968
Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965
Solid Waste Disposal Act of 1965
Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Control Act of 1965
National Historic Preservation Act of 1966
Aircraft Noise Abatement Act of 1968
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
Demonstration Cities Act of 1966
Economic Development Administration
Fair Labor Standards Act
Fair Housing Act of 1968 |
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