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Required Reading
Foner Chapter 25
Zinn Chapter 17
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Assignment
Reading Quiz #2
Identify the major events in the civil rights movement in the early 1960s.
Explain the major crises and policy initiatives of the Kennedy presidency.
Examine the purposes and strategies of Johnson’s Great Society programs.
Discuss how the civil rights movement changed in the mid-1960s.
Analyze how the Vietnam War transformed American politics and culture.
Assess the sources and the significance of the rights revolution of the late 1960s.
Examine the ways in which 1968 was a climactic year for the 1960s.
How did the idea of a "zone of privacy" build on or change earlier notions of rights and freedom?
In what ways were President Kennedy's foreign policy decisions shaped by Cold War ideology?
How did immigration policies change in these years, and what were the consequences for the composition of the population in the United States?
Explain why many blacks, especially in the North, did not believe that the civil rights legislation went far enough in promoting black freedom.
What were the effects of President Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty programs?
In what ways was the New Left not as new as it claimed?
How did the goals and actions of the United States in Vietnam cause controversy at home and abroad?
Discuss the impact of the Civil Rights movement on other movements for social change in the 1960s.
Identify the origins, goals, and composition of the feminist, or women's liberation, movement.
Describe how the social movements of the 1960s in the United States became part of global movements for change by 1968. How did those connections affect the United States' position in the world?
How did the counterculture expand the meaning of freedom in these years?