September 18: Visions and Divisions

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

 

Recommended

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