Laying the Foundation for Civil Rights
1. The Cold War added another layer of complexity to the basic fight for racial equality in the United States. The civil rights movement gained some support from federal officials aware that in the contest for the loyalty of emerging nations of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, American racism and discrimination gave the Soviet Union a powerful Cold War propaganda tool. The Warren Court’s strongly worded unanimous opinion that the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place and that separate educational facilities are inherently equal, came at a moment of great concern regarding international attention to the American civil rights movement. By the early 1950s, the inability of U.S. officials to respond …show more content…
The goals of President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society were to end racial discrimination, expand educational opportunities, end hunger and poverty, and make healthcare available for all. The Great Society mostly declared war on poverty and racism. At first, the public supported these social and economic reforms, but public approval of the Great Society faded as in the war in Vietnam expanded and many white Americans became angry and frightened by African American demands for civil rights.
Martin Luther King Jr. Explains Nonviolent …show more content…
The Chicano group lays out the educational goal that education must be relative to their people, for example, history, culture, bilingual education, and contributions. Their goal was to have community, rather than governmental, control of their schools, teachers, administrators, counselors, and programs. They also laid out a cultural goal to insure that their writers, poets, musicians, and writers produce literature and art that is appealing to their people and relates to their revolutionary culture. In this document, the group states that the cultural values of their people strengthen their identity and the moral backbone of their movement. This document also states that their “cultural values of life, family, and home will serve as a powerful weapon to defeat the gringo dollar value system and encourage the process of love and
1. The Cold War added another layer of complexity to the basic fight for racial equality in the United States. The civil rights movement gained some support from federal officials aware that in the contest for the loyalty of emerging nations of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, American racism and discrimination gave the Soviet Union a powerful Cold War propaganda tool. The Warren Court’s strongly worded unanimous opinion that the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place and that separate educational facilities are inherently equal, came at a moment of great concern regarding international attention to the American civil rights movement. By the early 1950s, the inability of U.S. officials to respond …show more content…
The goals of President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society were to end racial discrimination, expand educational opportunities, end hunger and poverty, and make healthcare available for all. The Great Society mostly declared war on poverty and racism. At first, the public supported these social and economic reforms, but public approval of the Great Society faded as in the war in Vietnam expanded and many white Americans became angry and frightened by African American demands for civil rights.
Martin Luther King Jr. Explains Nonviolent …show more content…
The Chicano group lays out the educational goal that education must be relative to their people, for example, history, culture, bilingual education, and contributions. Their goal was to have community, rather than governmental, control of their schools, teachers, administrators, counselors, and programs. They also laid out a cultural goal to insure that their writers, poets, musicians, and writers produce literature and art that is appealing to their people and relates to their revolutionary culture. In this document, the group states that the cultural values of their people strengthen their identity and the moral backbone of their movement. This document also states that their “cultural values of life, family, and home will serve as a powerful weapon to defeat the gringo dollar value system and encourage the process of love and