Lyndon Johnson took office from 1963 to 1970 and he contributed in the development of the civil rights movements. In fact at his beginning office, LBJ began the great society which is a program set up by president LBJ. Its main goal was to eliminate poverty and especially racial injustice. The great society speech in Michigan was very famous because president LBJ announced in details the content of the program which targets education, medical care, urban problems and transportation.
The picture below shows president Lyndon Johnson with civil rights leaders Martin Luther king JR, Whitney Young and James Farmer and this meeting was held to discuss the fact that black man in the Mississippi had the desire to vote. The number reached the 80000 people and they organized mock elections. This ended up by launching the MFDP which is the Mississippi freedom democratic party in order to do opposition to all official parties governed by white people. At that time LBJ proposed a compromise under which it would receive two nonvoting at large seats and the official Democratic Party would retain its seats. The compromise was rejected by the MFDP and leaders of the party began strikes after the states denied its …show more content…
The act of civil rights implemented by LBJ and some civil rights leaders set very strict rules to enforce the civil rights in the United States of America. The act was initially very weak but it was implemented progressively during the next few years. LBJ Feared the signing of the bill because there was a risk of political repercussion such us a change in the demographic support of the political parties since supporting the act could make him loose the southern states, and consequently losing the elections, but he pushed for its introduction and won the 1964
The picture below shows president Lyndon Johnson with civil rights leaders Martin Luther king JR, Whitney Young and James Farmer and this meeting was held to discuss the fact that black man in the Mississippi had the desire to vote. The number reached the 80000 people and they organized mock elections. This ended up by launching the MFDP which is the Mississippi freedom democratic party in order to do opposition to all official parties governed by white people. At that time LBJ proposed a compromise under which it would receive two nonvoting at large seats and the official Democratic Party would retain its seats. The compromise was rejected by the MFDP and leaders of the party began strikes after the states denied its …show more content…
The act of civil rights implemented by LBJ and some civil rights leaders set very strict rules to enforce the civil rights in the United States of America. The act was initially very weak but it was implemented progressively during the next few years. LBJ Feared the signing of the bill because there was a risk of political repercussion such us a change in the demographic support of the political parties since supporting the act could make him loose the southern states, and consequently losing the elections, but he pushed for its introduction and won the 1964