President Lyndon Johnson By: Reece HamilTon

In July 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed in the Civil Rights Act (1964), which contained some voting-related provisions. Title I condemned state discrimination in voter registration. The bill prompted outrage from conservative white Southerners, who were only slightly mollified that it was signed by a Texan. Yet many in the African American community criticized the act as well, feeling that it had not gone far enough. Just as the Fourteenth Amendment of 1868 had failed to secure full legal rights for freed slaves, so the 1964 Civil Rights Act did not ensure the voting rights of African Americans.
Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society program. Established as a War on Poverty, it greatly expanded welfare programs. One goal of the Great Society was to help realize some of the intentions of civil rights legislation. This could only be done by opening up opportunities for African Americans in schooling, housing, and the labour force.
Under the direction of Shriver, the OEO established several programs that attempted to remedy the problem of the chronic unemployment of African Americans. The Concentrated Employment Program, the Manpower Development and Training Act, and the Work Incentive Program for Welfare Clients were supposed to be stopgap measures intended to provide job training and preparation for placement for the unemployable. Furthermore, OEO directed such programs as the Job Corps and Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA)—a sort of domestic peace corps—which were intended to enable African American youth to learn and acquire technical skills.
"In his first address before Congress, President Johnson laid out his plans for an ambitious, multifaceted program of social and economic reforms designed to promote social equality and economic fairness for all Americans."
"Such Great Society initiatives targeted the economic status of the nation's poor, including whites and nonwhites. Another arm of the Great Society specifically focused on African Americans, whose long struggle for civil rights was at its peak in the mid-1960s."

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Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908 - 1973), referred to as LBJ, served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Lyndon Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act, 2 July 1964. Martin Luther king Jnr. looks on behind the President . Photography. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.

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