Great Society• Johnson convinces congress to pass Kennedy’s Civil Rights Bill
• It allowed the gov’t to cut off funding to any program that practiced discrimination • Created VISTA to battle poverty • The Voting Rights Act: Outlawed the literacy tests needed in order to register to vote -masde it legal for funding cuts for business who practiced racism and discrim.. -most significant, the voting rights act, had to write the literacy test in order to see if the lacks were smart enough to vote \-> lbj got rid of the lit test |
SummaryA social leap forward in American civilization. A bill was passes that cut off government funding to discriminatory companies. The literacy test in the voting rights act, which was a nearly impossible test, was abolished under president Johnson.
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Would black people be able to vote today if it weren't for LBJ?
"We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society"
- Lyndon B. Johnson