What role did Lyndon Johnson play in the Civil Rights movement? What role did he play in allowing African Americans to vote after JFK was assisnated?
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Lyndon Johnson has been credited with being one of the most important figures in the civil rights movement. Johnson does have some distracters who believe that he was merely an unprincipled politician who used the civil rights issue when he realised the worth of the "Black Vote". However Johnson himself claimed to be an idealist who dreamed of making America a "Great Society". It was Johnson who put the presidential signature to the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
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I remember reading about that before that even thought eh Democrats controlled Congress back then a lot of the Democrats in Congress were against the Civil Rights act but a lot of the Republicans in Congress favored it (some of the Democrats who opposed the Act were upset with Kennedy for his fight for Civil Rights).\n\nDid any Republicans voted against the act? yes of course im not saying that all Republicans supported it but the number that did was certainly a high number.\n\nMost Republicans in Congress favored the act but most Democrats in Congress opposed, but the number on both sides that voted in favor of it was enough to pass it.
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This is a very timely article describing the efforts to protect our rights to vote using force and legal means if necessary.\n\nThis makes a few connections for me:\n\nThe election of a democratic government in Iraq:\nhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01/30/iraq.main/\n\nThe efforts and challenges of civil rights and elections:\nhttp://www.civilrights.org/issues/voting/details.cfm?id=34487\n\n\nThe elections during the civil rights movement in the United States:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Summer\n\nThere are so many examples of the struggle for democracy around the world and in our own country.  It seems to be a never-ending struggle.\n\nj
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Just for your information:\n\nAbe Lincoln was the first Republican president, and while not perfect, -he is seen as being instrumental in freeing the black slaves.\n\nDuring the civil un-rest in the early 1960's, legislation was passed thru congress for the Civil Rights act of 1964. More republicans were behind that bill that democrats. The "southern democrat" was a real problem.\n\nAnd besides, a lot of black parents don't want their young adult children to marry whites. Other than race, there's a lot more reasons that parents would promote commonality based on religion, education, language, values, ... and name a few more!!
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The extent of this would be in parts large and also not. First you have to see that Jackson was a Jeffersonian, which means that he believes in his ideas. Examples would be laissez-faire and the common man voting. It doesn't provide individual rights because it does not protect the rights of the indians and he passes the indian removal act also known as the trail of tears. pet banks would also provide some type economic opprtunity, but he destroys the bank Biddle wants to recharter. An economic opportunity would be the spoils system which gives the chance for the common man to rise.Hope that helps.
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Didn't Martin Luther King give up his life to prevent things like this happening? I don't think he wanted his death to be ignored in this way, he fought for integration not segregation.
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USMC combat vet here.  i have a right to answer and gave up most of my life so that others had those same freedoms.  and now i don't know.  i don't think so.\n\nbut i don't think it was eisenhower kennedy, and johnson that did it as someone above said; i think it was the citizens of america who traded freedom for a bunch of useless trinkets that no one ever actually saw.
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Yes, I astonished to hear about this as well. I found an excellent resource with more information about this.\nhttp://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/naind/html/na_041800_voting.htm\n\nFor all the hue and cry about Civil rights, the rightful people are not getting their due. It's really sad to hear this.
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The Black Panther Party (originally called the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was an African American civil rights and self-defense organization, active within the United States in the late 1960s.\n\nFounded in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in October 1966, the organization initially espoused a doctrine of armed resistance to societal oppression in the interest of African American justice, though its objectives and philosophy changed radically throughout the party's existence. While the organization's leaders passionately espoused socialist doctrine, the party's black nationalist reputation[1] attracted an ideologically diverse membership base, such that ideological consensus within the party was difficult to derive, and differing perspectives within the party base often clashed conspicuously with those of its leadership.\n\nThe group was founded on the principles of its Ten-Point Program, a document that called for "Land, Bread, Housing, Education, Clothing, Justice And Peace," as well as exemption from military service that would utilize African Americans to "fight and kill other people of color in the world who, like Black people, are being victimized by the White racist government of America."[2]\n\nWhile firmly grounded in black nationalism, and begun as an organization that accepted African American membership exclusively[3], the party reconsidered itself as it grew to national prominence and became an iconic representative of the counterculture revolutions of the 1960s. The Black Panthers ultimately condemned black nationalism as "black racism"[4], and became more focused on socialism without exclusivity, instituting a variety of community programs to alleviate poverty and illness among the communities they deemed most needful of aid, or most neglected by the American government. While the Party retained its all-black membership, they recognized that different communities (those they deemed oppressed by the American government) needed to organize around their own set of issues and encouraged alliances with these organizations.\n\nThe group's political goals are often overshadowed by their confrontational and even militaristic tactics[5], and their suspicious regard of law enforcement agents, whom the Black Panthers perceived as a linchpin of oppression that could only be overcome by a willingness to take up armed self-defense.\n\nThe Black Panther Party completely fell apart in the early 1970s but party membership had actually started to decline during Huey Newton's 1968 manslaughter sentence. There have been a variety of allegations as to the lengths to which law enforcement went in its attempts to discredit and destroy the organization, including allegations of assassination
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They didn't do a lot except give the blacks the right to vote, made them citizens and something else I don't know.\nIf I was you I will say that it didn't unify the culture using the following:\n1 The southerners had literacy tests and etc to keep black from voting. \n2 most of the blacks thus ended up becoming sharecroppers under white elites. See so no unification. \n3 Separate but equal segregation later on completely destroyed the meaning of these amendments by going around them and making blacks less equal. \nHope that helps.
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Civil Rights: racism, desegregation, inequality, civil-disobedience, courage.\n\nWomen's movement:  feminism, equality, sexism, empowerment, businesswoman.\n\nCounter culture:  hippie, free-love, self-expression, radicalism, anti-establishment.
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Are you really who you claim to be?\nProve it!\n\nThe point is, being asked to verify who you are is a safe-guard from some yokel walking in and claiming he/she is you and then voting the way they want to.\n\nThis isn't a question about civil rights, it is a smart way to prevent voter fraud.\n\nYou DO want an honest election, don't you???
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I think that he was a very intelligent person caught up in a time when African Americans were unjustly subjected to harsh racism and lynchings, at the hands of the White populace. Segregation was the status quo, and he did what he thought was right in fighting against it. His actions were only a response to the harshness of the times during his life. He eventually realized that all men were brothers after his pilgrimage to Mecca, and moved closer to the philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr..
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he was very peaceful however he advocated a separation between whites and blacks. he urged blacks to start their own organizations and reject regular, white based culture to make their own unique one. He was a freedom rider as well.
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This means Democracy in its purest form ... Government of the people, by the people, and for the people ... as laid down by Abraham Lincoln (Getty'sburg Address).  Jackson was a co-founder of the Democratic Party.  He was particularly keen on this motto after his first run for presidency failed, notwithstanding that Jackson was popularly considered the "man of the people".  However, no candidate received a majority so the election decision was given to the House of Representatives, which chose John Quincy Adams.  Jackson maintained that a "corrupt bargain" had been made because Henry Clay gave his vote to Adams - who then made Clay Secretary of State.  Jackson called for the abolition of the Electoral College.\n\nHowever, this democracy of the people did not appear to have included the native American Indian - (Indian Removal Act 1830) - since it was Jackson's removal policies which literally created Reservation ghettos.  His Government negotiated so-called treaties with the hapless natives and paid peanuts for the lucrative and fertile grounds which the native American Indian considered their natural home.  The later Treaty of New Echota, 1838, (negotiated after gold was found on the Cherokee lands) resulting in the Cherokee "Trail of Tears".\n\nObviously, in Jackson's eyes, some people were more "democratically" equal than others!!
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Look at a history book. Put in pictures of Andrew Jackson as well since he was the pres. who forced them to leave. And put in a picture of John Marshall who was the Supreme Court Chief Justice who supported the Cherokee.
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One form of voting restriction aimed specifically at African Americans was the Grandfather clause that allowed men to register to vote only if they could have voted in 1867 (before African Americans were allowed to vote in the South) or descended from an 1867 voter. This excerpt from the Louisiana law of 1898 was typical of many such restrictions. The cumulative effect of the different restriction efforts was to reduce overall voting levels by more than a third and black voting rates by almost two thirds. \nIf you have more questions about this, you can look at this link:  http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5352