Please note that this was
originally due for Tuesday, according to the original syllabus. From this point
on, that original syllabus will be modified.
Read:
·
America Divided 107-149 and the following
·
The Color Welfare Excerpt.htm
·
” Fannie Lou
Hamer On The Mississippi Voter Registration Campaign
·
Gulf of Tonkin Lie launched
the Vietnam War escalation
For many more links on the Vietnam War and the 1960s, see my 60s webpage
·
My outline on the tiered welfare
state
·
Women on
Welfare by Johnnie Tillmon
·
"The
Bottom of the Economic Totem Pole": African American Women in the
Workplace
·
“And We Shall Overcome”: President
Lyndon B. Johnson’s Special Message to Congress
·
: Hollis Watkins Describes Police
Intimidation in the Voter Registration Campaign
·
What
was great about the Great Society? By Joseph Califano
·
Tapes
Indicate Johnson Doubted Attack in Tonkin Gulf
·
The Effects of the Voting Rights
Act—Testimony from 1969
· McNamara
on the way that the Cold War purges affected Vietnam
· Senator Fulbright on
the Arrogance of Power 1966
· President Johnson White House Tapes -“I don’t think it’s worth fighting for, and I don’t think we can get out” –May 1964. You need real audio, but there is no substitute for hearing it. This is extraordinarily relevant to what is happening today in Iraq. I urge you to listen to this