1960s Topics
Peace Corps
Warren Court (Voting Rights)
Warren Court (Religious Freedom)
Warren Commission
Within weeks of his inauguration, President Kennedy Signs Executive Order 10924, establishing the Peace Corps on a temporary pilot basis. Peace Corps a program that trains and sends volunteers to poor nations to serve as educators, health care workers, etc. to aid developing countries
Importance: Advanced foreign policy and commitment to peace [New Frontier]
Baker v. Carr (1952), Westberry v. Sanders (1964) an Reynolds v. Sims (1963) established that legislative districts must have equal populations. Reformed voting rights: "one person, one vote"
Importance: Emphasis on individual rights and 14th amendment. Equal Protection Clause – This part of the fourteenth amendment states that there may be no discrimination against them by the law. This clause of the 14th amendment would later be used to end discrimination and segregation in the South.
Engel v. Vitale (1962): Banned formal prayer in schools.
Importance: Established First Amendment's guarantee that government would not make any religion the nation's "official" religion.
Supreme Court spent 10 months investigating the assassination. Outcome is there no conspiracy - Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone
Importance: Assures the American public the government can be trusted.
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Space Race
Lyndon B. Johnson
From VP to 36th President
Warren Court
(Rights of the Accused)
Kennedy Assassination
November 22, 1963
Judge Sarah T. Hughes administers the Presidential Oath of Office to Lyndon Baines Johnson aboard Air Force One, at Love Field, Dallas Texas.
May 1961, President Kennedy proposes to Congress to land a man on the moon and return him safely back to earth.
July 20, 1969, Armstrong is ready to plant the first human foot on another world. With more than half a billion people watching on television, he climbs down the ladder and proclaims: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/teaching-about-jfk-with-the-new-york-times/?_r=0
- Mapp v. Ohio (1961): search warrants apply to state and local police too
- Gideon v. Wainwright (1963): Free lawyers to poor
- Escobedo v. Illinois (1964): Right to a lawyer during police questioning
- Miranda v. Arizona (1966): Extension of the rights mention above
Importance: Emphasis on individual rights.