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World in Uncertain Times: 1950 -- Present

Decade of Change: 1960s

President Johnson and the Great Society

Medicare

President Johnson’s Remarks at signing of Medicare Bill, in Johnson’s Speeches at Johnson Presidential Library website (scroll down to July 30, 1965):

http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/selected_speeches.asp

Environment

Johnson’s remarks at signing of Air Quality Act (predrecessor to the Clean Air Act), in Speeches at Johnson Presidential Library website (scroll down to 1967):

http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/selected_speeches.asp

“The Clean Air Act of 1970” by Paul G. Rogers, article explaining background of the law (first “Earth Day” in 1970, etc.), on Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) website:

http://www.epa.gov/history/topics/caa70/11.htm

Moon Landing – Space Exploration

“Apollo to the Moon” Program – online exhibit and detailed explanation of the history of the American space exploration program which landed astronauts on the moon, on National Aeronautics & Space Museum website:

http://www.nasm.si.edu/galleries/attm/attm.html

The Apollo Program – description of the program and each of its missions, on National Aeronautics & Space Museum website,

with links to other NASA Apollo websites:

http://www.nasm.si.edu/apollo/

Description, links and materials about the July 20, 1969 American landing on the moon, on NASA’s “Apollo: 30^th Anniversary” webpages:

http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/introduction.htm

Johnson’s remarks at signing of Treaty on Outer Space, in Speeches at Johnson Presidential Library website (scroll down to 1967):

http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/selected_speeches.asp

Description of the Treaty on Outer Space and other origins of “Space Law” in article: “Space Law Relevant to Astronomy” (scroll down to “Sources and Nature of Space Law”:

http://www.seas.columbia.edu/~ah297/un-esa/paper-lafferanderie.html

Civil Rights

Black protest, pride, and power – Continued Demands for Equality

“SNCC – 6 Years of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: 1960-66”: Description, links, and timeline for the first 6 years of this group which was organized to protest racial discrimination:

http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/

Southern Christian Leadership Conference – background and history on group’s official website (click on “From Whence We’ve Come”):

http://sclcnational.org/

CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) – background of group’s formation and history, with recording and photos, and including major events in Civil Rights movements, on group’s official website (click on “History”):

http://www.core-online.org/

Malcolm X and the Black Muslims, on History Channel’s “Black History Month” webpages:

http://www.historychannel.com/cgi-bin/frameit.cgi?p=http%3A//www.historychannel.com/exhibits/blackhist/0216.html

Johnson’s Speeches, at Johnson Presidential Library website -- scroll down to “Civil Rights Bill” (1964) and “Voting Rights Act” (1965):

http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/selected_speeches.asp

“Equal Protection: Race” cases analysis in Project LEGAL’s CompuLEGAL Case Library (click on this category):

http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/plegal/scales/home.html

Fair Housing Act of 1968 – on Cornell Legal Information Institute (LII) webpages (link is to key provision):

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/42/3604.html

Overview of Civil Rights law on Cornell LII webpages:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/civil_rights.html

Supreme Court case: Heart of Atlanta Motel v. U.S., 379 U.S. 241 (1964), (scroll down alphabetical case listing to “H” and click on this case name and then on “syllabus”—short description of case):

http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/cases/name.htm

Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186 (1962), Supreme Court case which decided that black voters were entitled to sue where a Tennessee law about voting districts resulted in a “gross disproportion of representation to voting population”-- scroll down alphabetical case listing to “B” and click on this case name and then on “syllabus”—short description of case):

http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/cases/name.htm

Modern Women’s Movement

Brief description of the President’s Commission on the Status of Women (1961-63):

http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/2upa/Aws/pressComm.htm

Equal Rights Amendment – text, history, chart of ratifying states, and current efforts, on website of national organization committed to passage of this Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:

http://www.equalrightsamendment.org/

History of NOW (National Organization for Women), on NOW website, including information on Equal Rights Amendment, Reproductive Rights, and other Gender Equality issues:

http://www.now.org/history/history.html

“Other Bill of Rights Cases— Privacy”: analysis of cases, including Roe v. Wade, in Project LEGAL’s CompuLEGAL Case Library (click on this category):

http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/plegal/scales/home.html

Immigrants

Companion website to PBS’ “The City/La Ciudad” program about modern immigrants to U.S. (click on “immigration issues” then “women and immigration,” “workers’ rights”):

http://www.pbs.org/itvs/thecity/index.html

Native Americans

American Indian Movement – official organization website, “A Brief History” includes chronology of the organization and efforts to achieve equal treatment for native Americans (1968-1998):

http://www.aimovement.org/ggc/history.html

Library of Congress’ “Today in History” webpages for Dec. 29, includes history of the Indian massacre at Wounded Knee on Dec. 29, 1890 and description of the 1973 protest at the site:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/dec29.html

Rights of the Accused

Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643 (1961), in Project LEGAL’s CompuLEGAL Case Library (click on “Search & Seizure cases” & then on this case name):

http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/plegal/scales/home.html

Gideon v. Wainright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963), and Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), in Project LEGAL’s CompuLEGAL Case Library (click on “Right to Counsel/Self-Incrimination Cases” & then on these case names):

http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/plegal/scales/home.html

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Syracuse, NY

December, 2002