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Lyndon B. Johnson, Commencement Address at Howard University (1965) VF 172

Commencement Address

  • Johnson says that American Negroes have been another nation
  • Not just freedom but opportunity
  • All needs to be equal for blacks and whites

Lyndon B. Johnson

  • Born in 1908 in Texas
  • 36th President of the United States
  • Democrat and Texas Senator
  • VP for JFK
  • succeeded JFK after his assassination
  • Designed the "Great Society"

Howard University

Located in Washington, D.C.

  • founded in 1867
  • All-black University
  • Students had organized sit-ins and pickets around the city in 1943 at places they had been denied service because of their race
  • Where President Johnson gave the his Commencement Address on the issue of Civil Rights

The "Great Society"

  • Created to eliminate poverty and racial injustice
  • uphold civil rights
  • public broadcasting
  • Medicare and Medicaid
  • environmental protection
  • educational aid
  • rural and urban development
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