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Thursday 4/16RAP•What were 3 similarities of MLK Jr. and Malcolm X?•What were 3 differences of MLK Jr. and Malcolm X?
Today:•CE•Review Venn on MLK and Malcolm X•Presidents video –JFK, LBJ, and Nixon•Read Ch. 21.1 on JFK and LBJ – complete VENN
Compare MLK Jr. and Malcolm X. Pages 676 & 692; also any pages in between
DIFFERENCES SIMILARITIES DIFFERENCES Son of Baptist preacher Baptist Believed in integration Non-violent methods Middle class home Morehouse college Boston University PHD in
religion Gandhian strategy Worked with white leaders Wanted white people in
movement Black separatism anti-thesis of
Civil Rights movement
Rights for black people Went to jail Preachers Family man Assassinated degrees
Muslim Early life was crazy Father killed by Klan Was a problem teen –drugs,
theft Separatism of races wanted a
black area in U.S. or place in Africa
Terrorized by Klan Violence if necessary to get
equality Master's degree in prison Wanted only blacks to fight for
black rights Pilgrimage to Makkah for
awakening and change Black pride sometimes sent
anti-white sentiment After trek to Makkah he
thought all races should live together.
Open your textbook to page 698-699
• Please read this section on President Kennedy and President LBJ.– As you read complete the VENN diagram.– DUE Monday, along with the chart on the
Supreme Court cases; Ch. 21.2.
Friday 4/17RAP1. What was President Kennedy’s vision of
progress at home called?2. What was President Johnson’s vision of
progress at home called?3. How were they different?Today:• Stamp Venn diagram• Review Venn diagram of President
Kennedy and President Johnson.
JFK and Lyndon B. JohnsonDifferences Similarities Differences
• New Frontier• Idealist• Progressive• 2 years in office
• Jan 1961-Nov. 1963• Peace Corps (1961)• Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
(1963)• Trade Expansion Act• Increased spending on
defense• Reacted to events
• Space Race• Man to moon• Project Mercury
• Catholic• Min. wage raised $1-$1.25 hr.• Dealt with a Rep. Congress• Young senator• Slow on Civil Rights• Put thru Civil Rights Bill• Assassinated by Lee Harvey
Oswald• Who was killed by Jack
Ruby
• Democrat• Senators prior • Dealt with cold war crisis in
Cuba and Vietnam• Civil Rights and Poverty
plans• Economic upswing till 70s• Min. wage increase for both
• Great Society• Economic Opportunity Act.• Elementary / Sec. Ed act• Medicare / Medicaid act• Water quality Act• Immigration Act• Poverty push
• Min. wage from 1.25 to 1.48
• Head Start• HUD
• VISTA (Volunteers in service to America
• Domestic Peace corps• Protestant• Escalated Vietnam
• Pushed him out of office • Senator for many years.• Crude, demanding• Civil Rights Act (1964)• Voting Rights Act 1965• Good at building coalitions• Manipulator / persuader• Confident
The Supreme Court and Civil Liberties: Ch. 21.2: pages 713-717
Please open your text book to Ch. 21.2: page 713: The Supreme Court and Civil Liberties.
Read the Warren Court: page 714-717 1. Write the definition of each of the following terms in
relation to the reading.• Reapportionment• Gerrymandering• Due process
2. Complete the chart on the Supreme Court. 3. Also, address all the other questions on the handout.
1. You will be turning it in on Monday.