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Lyndon B. Johnson's Impact On Civil Rights

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Introduction “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”(“LBJ Quotes.”). Johnson was a man who didn 't focus on the past but spent his life to make the future better. He didn 't want power for himself but to empower the people that were poor and discriminated. Lyndon B. Johnson was a great leader and person who grew through all his struggles, and left a lasting positive impact on civil rights in this country. Biographical Information Lyndon B. Johnson grew up in a tough time for America. There was world war I, segregation, and discrimination against women. His parents were Texas pioneers. He was born on August 27, 1908 in Texas. Johnson was the oldest of five. He had three sisters and one brother. When Johnson was a toddler, he was restless and would wander away. He did not like to play with kids his age, so all his friends were older than him. He always loved …show more content…

Struggle and Growth One of Johnson’s struggles was being broke and homesick when he was train hopping to California. This made him think that his parents were right about him going to college ("Lyndon B. Johnson"). Johnson then attended Southwest Texas State Teachers College. Johnson had to leave college because of financial problems. He went to Cotulla Texas and taught poor children. Living with such a poor community gave him a new awareness of people 's hardships. Which made him who he was, a great, kind person, and president. When he got enough money he went back to college and donated stuff to the kids in Cotulla. When Johnson was pushing the Civil Rights bill of 1964, which ended segregation and employment discrimination based of race, sex, and religion he had a lot of obstacles (United States Senate). The biggest obstacle he had was the sixty day filibuster. Up until then for the civil rights bill the Senate had never gotten enough votes to end a filibuster. Only five times in the history of the cloture had the Senate agreed to cloture for anything (United States

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He tried to become President in 1960 but lost to John F. Kennedy. However, he became vice president for John F. Kennedy. After John F. Kennedy was killed, Lyndon B. Johnson took his place. With previous problems regarding Civil rights, people asked if President Lyndon B. Johnson pass the Civil Rights bill because he wanted the majority vote for the presidential election, or because it was morally right?

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The events that happen to the signing of the civil rights act of 1964 were very crazy and made a great impact on today 's society. Despite low approval rating LBJ was still fighting for what he believes is right. LBJ 's background was that he was always around racism and he didnt think it was right. He taught as a teacher in texas. While others think he should sign the civil rights act of 1964 it was not politics wanting to get signed again.

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One way Johnson does this is by building up his trust with congress as well as his people through promising appeals. Johnson often uses “we” in most of his speech to prove to the citizens that it is not just them in the fight, but that he is providing assistance to reach their intentions. He continues to build that trust throughout his speech by putting himself as a human as well, not just as the leader of the country. Since Johnson is a white man who is trying to fight for African American rights during that era, it is quite hard to do so considering whites once hated blacks. This being said, it's Johnson's duty to enforce that trust to make the African Americans believe he is attempting to better their lives.

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Civil rights leaders, who were initially skeptical of President Johnson, soon came to recognize him as a true supporter and worked closely with him to ensure the successful passage of the Act (EEOC,

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He never really put much thought into his decisions except for the fact of was he going to be liked. This is the third and final most important reason on why he signing of the Civil Rights Act was based purely on politics. In conclusion, The Civil Rights Act was signed through politics and he did win the election of 1964. America did benefit greatly from the new laws creating equal opportunity for all who lived there. In his new term, Johnson created the Great Society which allowed many unprivileged children have equal footing for school.

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