HIST 20 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Voting Rights Act Of 1965, Olea, Model Cities Program
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A war within our own boundaries : lyndon johnson"s great society and the rise of the. Under lyndon b. johnson"s presidency raise of urban civil disorder. Riots swept american cities and resulted in the deaths of more than two hundred black americans, thirteen thousand injured civilians and officers, and destruction of billions of dollars worth of property. These uprisings sparked not by white hostility to integration like earlier race riots byr by the presence of exploitative and exclusionary institutions in black neighborhoods. The greatest period of domestic bloodshed the nation had witnessed since the. Lead to anti poverty programs with anti crime programs that laid the groundwork for contemporary mass incarceration. Gave black american in the south the opportunity to participate in the electoral process as full citizens. Broke with two hundred years of national policy and established federal influence over local police. Allowed for law enforcement officials to use methods of surveillance that overlapped with social programs.
