Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
- Johnson convinces congress to pass Kennedy's Civil rights Bill
- He comes in after Kennedy gets assassinated
- It allowed the government to cut off funding to any program that practiced discrimination
- Created VISTA to battle poverty
- the goal of the Great Society was to battle poverty
- The Voting Rights Act: outlawed the literacy tests needed in order to register to vote
- they made this test so hard that they couldn't vote and white people wouldn't have been able to even pass it
Summary
Lyndon Johnson comes in after Kennedy's assassination and brought in the idea of the great society. this allowed for the government to cut off all funding to any program that practiced discrimination. He also created VISTA to battle poverty and brought in the Voting Rights Act.