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The Great Society at 50 SOURCES: LBJ Presidential Library, Collegeboard.org, National Endowment for the Humanities, Census Bureau, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, Department of Homeland Security.
Great Society. Great Society, in U.S. history, term for the domestic policies of President Lyndon Johnson. In his first State of the Union message, he called for a war on poverty and the creation of a “Great Society,” a prosperous nation that had overcome racial divisions. To this end, Johnson proposed an expansion in the federal government ...
Lyndon B. Johnson: Domestic Affairs. The Lyndon Johnson presidency marked a vast expansion in the role of the national government in domestic affairs. Johnson laid out his vision of that role in a commencement speech at the University of Michigan on May 22, 1964. He called on the nation to move not only toward "the rich society and the powerful ...
Oct 10, 2020 · Summary: This lesson studies legislation passed in response to President Lyndon Baines Johnson's call for America to become a "Great Society." Students will detail the President's vision, summarize its historic context, and explain the ways in which Congress responded. The main source for their research will be the online exhibit entitled The Great Society Congress created by the Association ...
The good-paying, unskilled jobs of the past were disappearing, and those without education and skills were being left behind. The first piece of Great Society legislation, the Economic Opportunity ...
Great Society definition: the goal of the Democratic Party under the leadership of President Lyndon B. Johnson, chiefly to enact domestic programs to improve education, provide medical care for the aged, and eliminate poverty..
Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. On a May morning in 1964, President Johnson laid out a sweeping vision for a package of domestic reforms known as the Great Society. Speaking before that year’s graduates of the University of Michigan, Johnson called for “an end to poverty and racial injustice” and challenged both the graduates and ...
