racial violence in, 29, 30–31, 37, 38–39, 40, 42, 44, 45, 46, 48
Republican victories in, 160
segregationist laws in, 29
“Southern Manifesto,” 73
and voting rights, 217
Soviet Union:
and cold war, 11, 22, 29, 147–48
and Cuban missile crisis, 38, 147
and Sputnik, 175–76
and Vietnam, 147
Spina, Dominick, 275
State of the Union addresses, 74, 79–80, 184, 192, 225
Steiger, William A., 248
Stennis, John C., 104
Stevenson, Coke, 70–71
Strout, Richard, 221
Supreme Court, U.S.:
Brown v. Board of Education, 29, 37, 41, 48, 73, 228
FDR’s court-packing plan, 14, 68, 166, 168
on housing, 232
liberal rulings of, 136, 203
Taft, Robert A., 72
Taft, Robert A., Jr., 160
Taft-Hartley Act (1947), 4, 70, 167–68
Section 14B, 168
Talmadge, Herman, 116, 140
tax cut:
JFK’s proposal for, 2, 36, 38
LBJ’s proposal for, 2, 75–81
Revenue Act (1964), 81, 102, 164, 167
tax surcharge (1968), 265, 269–72, 274, 278, 281, 283, 288, 289, 290, 291, 294–95, 303
Teague, Olin E., 143
Thompson, Frank, 97
Thurmond, Strom, 24, 170, 218
Title IV (housing bill), 235–40
Title VI, Title VII (Civil Rights Act), 100, 106, 118, 141
Tobin, James, 279
Todd, Paul H. Jr., 258
Tower, John, 104, 139, 218
Transportation Department, U.S., creation of, 227
Truman, Harry S, 87, 168, 277
and civil rights, 24
and cold war, 4, 146
conservative opposition to, 14–15
and health care, 165–66, 185–86, 187, 200–201
Tuten, J. Russell, 143
Twenty-fourth Amendment, on elections, 215–16
Udall, Stewart, 115
Underground Railroad, 89
unions, see labor
United Auto Workers (UAW), 27, 168, 188
United States Housing Act (1937), 234
United Steelworkers, 88
University of Alabama, integration of, 48
University of Maryland, Law School, 29
University of Michigan, Great Society speech in, 164, 320
urban renewal, 232
urban riots, 249, 272–78, 286
Chicago, 241, 245, 250, 307–8
and housing, 240–41, 244
and King assassination, 296, 297, 298, 306
“law and order” amendment, 245, 246–47
political effects of, 277–78, 291–92
and poverty, 138
and rat extermination programs, 276
Watts, Los Angeles, 222, 228–30, 243
Valenti, Jack, 2, 64, 116, 156, 157
Vance, Cyrus, 274
vanden Heuvel, William, 294
Veith, Richard, 277
Veterans Administration (VA), 232–33
Vietnam War, 146–51
and cold war, 146, 147, 263
costs of, 82, 225, 226, 264–65, 267, 271–72, 279, 283, 284, 310
ending, 303, 313
escalation of, 9, 146, 148, 222–23
Gulf of Tonkin, 148–51, 157, 263, 285
and media, 148
opponents of, 9, 226, 249, 263, 264, 284–85, 291, 307–8
political considerations in, 146, 251, 252, 260, 263–65, 283–86, 291, 292, 301, 310
Tet Offensive, 284, 291
VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America), 135
Vivian, Weston E., 258
Voter Registration Project, 202–3, 228
voting rights, 202–20
civil rights bills: (1957), 33–35, 202; (1960), 202; (1963), 41, 42; (1964), 108
LBJ’s vision for, 2, 165, 167
and literacy tests, 39, 41, 49, 60, 202, 207, 219
one man, one vote, 203
opponents of, 4–5, 153, 166
and poll tax, 21, 56–57, 202, 215–16, 218–19
and redistricting, 203
and residency tests, 202, 219
Voting Rights Act (1965), 217–20, 228, 245, 318
Wagner Act, 4
Wallace, George C., 210, 242
and civil rights activists, 45–46, 48, 215
and 1964 campaign, 107, 156, 161
and 1968 campaign, 304, 308–9, 312–14
and segregation, 46, 48
War on Poverty, 132–45, 256, 320
budget for, 137, 138, 277, 317
Community Action Agencies (CAAs), 134, 138
Community Action Program (CAP), 134–35, 222, 242
funds misused, 275–76
LBJ’s vision for, 80, 115, 132–36, 158, 177
and local authority, 140
opponents of, 137–40, 151, 163, 247
VISTA, 135
and vocational training, 135
Warren, Earl, 203
Washington Senators, 110–11
Water Quality Act (1965), 220–21
Watson, Albert, 169–70, 171, 172
Watts, John C., 190–91, 282
Watts riot, Los Angeles, 222, 228–30, 243
Webb, James E., 97
welfare state, 10, 133, 317
White, Theodore, 304
White, William, 20
Wilkins, Roy, 51, 93, 204, 216, 227, 265
Williams, Aubrey, 68
Williams, Harrison A. “Pete,” 23
Williams, John Bell, 169, 170, 171, 172
Williams, John J., 127, 288–90, 294
Wilson, Henry Hall, 227
Wilson, Woodrow, 166
Wofford, Harris, 31, 35, 38
women, equal rights for, 98–101
Woodlawn Organization, 222
World War II:
discrimination in defense industries, 50
LBJ’s service in, 69–70
wartime production, 21, 29
Yarborough, Ralph, 218
Yarmolinsky, Adam, 144–45
Young, Andrew, 205, 218, 321
Young, Stephen, 160
Young, Whitney M., 51, 93, 94
Zablocki, Clement, 294
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