exception of a few short essays‚ has published any further writings. She however did work on a second novel called “The Long Goodbye”‚ which she eventually filed it away unfinished. In June 1966‚ Lee was one of the two persons named by President Lyndon B. Johnson to the National Council on the Arts. Harper Lee was portrayed in many films during the late 90’s and up. She was portrayed in movies such as Capote‚ Infamous‚ and Other
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Presidents and Affirmative Action In 1965‚ President Lyndon B. Johnson issued Executive Order #11246 at Howard University that required federal contractors to undertake affirmative action to increase the number of minorities that they employ. He wanted to ensure that minorities were recruited to have real opportunities to be hired and then eventually get a promotion. In 1969‚ the Department of Labor exposed widespread racial discrimination of the Construction Department so President Richard M
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Martin Luther King opposed the Vietnam War and stood strongly against its continuation because it not only hurt the Vietnamese people but it took its toll on the American people also. Before the beginning of the war‚ the government was funding an experimental “Poverty Program” to help those individuals in need. Instead‚ the money was used to support the Vietnam war. Dr. King was outraged at this decision because he felt that the war was pointless. He believed that the money could be used in a much
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The Great Society was a domestic social program created in the 1960’s by President Lyndon Johnson. While President Johnson acknowledged the greatness of the United States‚ he also recognized there was a large segment of the United States that was not part of the success story – people living in poverty. While I am not saying that giving to the less fortunate is wrong or those who are at disadvantages because of uncontrollable circumstances should not be given an opportunity to help themselves
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if anything‚ enforcement would have made matters worse. In 1957 a civil rights bill was being pushed through Congress and Eisenhower made it clear that it did not have his support. This bill was very mild but the leader of the Senate majority‚ Lyndon Johnson‚ diluted it so that Southern senators would not ruin what was on paper. The bill was passed into law in 1957 with a 72 to14 vote. It barely changed anything but it was a strong symbol of hope that the law could be used to change Southern society
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The war was a twenty year war starting in 1954 and ending in 1975. The Vietnam War‚ a long war between North and South Vietnam over communism‚ impacted all generations by changing the way Americans viewed war and by hurting the Vietnamese people; furthermore‚ the U.S. presidents during the Vietnam War had many different views‚ which affected U.S. polices and the country for many years after. The United States supported Diem and wanted him to win the election. The Vietnam War began as a result of
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After they explain their days in training‚ the pilots go into discussing the war they fight in. They say how they know that the war is a lost cause but they fight anyways to defend their country. The documentary shows the address that president Lyndon B. Johnson gave to let the American population know that he was sending the Air Force into Vietnam. What
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The President of 1960 John F. Kennedy On November 22‚ 1963‚ when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office‚ John F. Kennedy was killed by an assassin’s bullets as his car wound through Dallas‚ Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die. Of Irish descent‚ he was born in Brookline‚ Massachusetts‚ on May 29‚ 1917. Graduating from Harvard in 1940‚ he entered the Navy. In 1943‚ when his PT boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer‚ Kennedy‚
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through a crowd of welcoming Texans‚ shots were fired striking the president in the head and chest. He then was sped off to Parkland Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 1:00 pm November 22‚ 1963. Hours after the president’s death‚ Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn into office during a short ceremony on Air Force One. Shortly before then‚ police detained a suspect by the name of Lee Harvey Oswald‚ an employee of the Texas School Book Depository. (The building that the president’s car was passing
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Daisy Bates Daisy Bates was born in Huttig‚ Arkansas on November 11‚ 1914. She had a very hard life growing up. When she was just a little girl she lost both of her parents. It is that her mother was raped and murdered by three white men. Her father left her once he heard the news of her mother. She was left with friends of her parents. She has had tragedies in her life‚ but she did not let them stop her from being very successful throughout her life. Her education path went as follows: Huttig
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