Johnson 1961-69. DOMESTIC POLICY

Question 1

Berkeley free speech movement

Answer 1

Leader- Mario Savio
100’s of Berkeleys students protested they had no right to free speech
They occupied the admin building the police got them out and arrested 800
Slogan ‘you can’t trust anyone over 30’
FSM triggered nationwide protest

Question 2

Anti war movements

Answer 2

Student peace union established 1959
Had 3000 members by 1962
But tens of thousands more students became anti-war activists
Motives included- draft, civilian bombing.

Question 3

‘Hell no, we won’t go’

Answer 3

Largest anti war protest to date 
Staged by the SDS in 1965 
Walked on Washington 
100,000
Yelling 'hell no, we won't go'

Question 4

Draft week

Answer 4

March on Washington

Draft cards publicly burnt

Question 5

Woodstock

Answer 5

1969 in New York 
400,000 attended 
Part of the hippie movement 
Headliners included Jimi Hendrix 
'Make love not war'

Question 6

Argument for and against the Hippie movement having a big impact…

Answer 6

BIG IMPACT
liberated attitudes towards sex and drugs
Resistance led to conservative backlash- brought Nixon into power

LITTLE IMPACT
Started in 60s faded by 70s
Not a large group- age etc
Goal wasn’t actually important

Question 7

Feminism

Answer 7

NOW- national organisation for women

Contraceptive pill introduced- gave women more freedom and control

Question 8

Civil rights act

Answer 8

1964
57% of African American housing was judged unacceptable
African American life expectancy was 7 years less
Used Kennedy’s murder to push civil rights act
68% now supported the civil rights act

Question 9

Voting rights

Answer 9

Passed 1965
Selma- got both national and international attention as the USA claimed to be a ‘free world’ and the soviets played on this
The act disallowed de jure segregation

Question 10

Late 1966 what states had fewer than 50% black voters registered

Answer 10

Alabama

Mississippi BUT by 1968 had 59%

Question 11

Deep South

Answer 11

Summer 1964
SNNC and CORE tried to highlight the violent opposition faced by African Americans trying to vote
Only 6.2% were on the voting rolls
Robert Moses (SNNC) suggested white students join movement
Trained in Ohio to register voters

Question 12

Selma

Answer 12

King led would-be voters to selmas court house but were refused the right to vote
Troopers shot black youths, thrown venomous snakes, clubbed women

Question 13

Urban riots

Answer 13

1964-68
Los Angeles watts ghetto led to white backlash
Suburban whites buying guns soared
1965- 88% of whites felt blacks should improve their own lives not the government

Question 14

Vietnam war and taxes

Answer 14

Deficit rose from $1.6 billion in 1966
To $25.3 billion in 1968
White tax payers felt the money was being spent on the poor

Question 15

Open housing law

Answer 15

Johnson felt ‘imprisoning negros in slums was unfair’
Whites imposed because if blacks moved into their area house prices would drop
Johnson received hate mail over trying to integrate

Question 16

Examples of anti-war protests

Answer 16

May 1964- 1000 Yale students protested in NY

1965- 800 marchers clashed with police

Question 17

‘Bloody Sunday’

Answer 17

Part of the movement in Selma
March from Selma to Montgomery
‘Bloody Sunday’ - clubbed, gassed ect
Pushed congress to pass voting right