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The Students Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organized sit-ins to pressure white-owned businesses to change their policies on segregating customers or refusing service to blacks. Such public displays gained media attention and raised the awareness of the country concerning the unfair and arbitrary racial bias in some areas of US society. This ultimately translated to political efforts to provide equal rights regardless of race.
To give publicity to the struggle for civil rights
they became more involved in social action
They became active in politics
That all Americans should work to overcome prejudice.
Social legislation slowed down because of the cost of Vietnam.
Vietnam cost so much that there was less money for the war on poverty.
Women had fewer job opportunities than men did in the 1960s.
He had been against American involvement before becoming president.
He felt that taking out troops would be a defeat for the United States.
He cautiously supported civil rights.
- The assasination of JFK
that it ended too early.
His domestic concerns largely took a backseat to foreign policy issues
it took resources away from social forms apex
President Johnson announces at the end of a speech that he will not run for reelection nor accept the nomination of the Democratic Party if offered.
President Johnson believed in the domino theory. He feared a communist takeover in Southeast Asia if the United States left Vietnam.
Angering middle-class whites
gender equality in public services
Helped older Americans pay for health care -APEX
Demonstrating at a mass rally- Apex
Nixon resigned before he could be impeached. -Apex
A Communist would likely win.
Some Americans avoided the draft by leaving the country. (Apex)
