The differences between King and Malcolm X created an ideological tension that split black political thought throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
In the case of the Civil Rights movement both sides of the Malcom X and MLK debate seem to make good points. While Malcolm X is justified in self defense, Luther is justified in ensuring people understand the victim from the aggressor in both protest and social order.
He took up Kennedy’s stalled 1963 civil rights bill, strengthened it, and navigated it through Congress. The following summer he signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Some alternate theory historians point to Johnson as the reason Civil Rights moved as fast as it did and argue that if Kennedy stayed in office the Civil Rights movement would have been fought for a longer period of time.
Eisenhower proposed a national healthcare plan that would have increased coverage across the nation. The proposal was defeated in the house by a 238–134 vote with a swing bloc of seventy-five conservative Republicans joining Democrats to vote against the plan. Eisenhower’s proposals in education and agriculture often suffered similar defeats. By the end of his presidency, Ike’s domestic legislative achievements were largely limited to expanding social security; making Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) a cabinet position; passing the National Defense Education Act; and bolstering federal support to education, particularly in math and science.
I never knew Eisenhower had socialist legislative ideas.
The conservatives sought to take the party further to the right, particularly in economic matters, by rolling back New Deal programs and policies
It's an interesting idea to repeal the legislature that brought you country back from the brink of collapse to show that your system is better, even though your system failed to do the same at the time.
cultural conservatism
Mostly white men back in the well paying workplace by the end of the war again. Freedoms of women and minority groups plunged back to lows seen before the war.
By the end of the 1950s, 90 percent of American families had one and the average viewer was tuning in for almost five hours a day.
Glad to see that humans always had a draw to new technology.
The court found by a unanimous 9–0 vote that racial segregation violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
It is refreshing to see a supreme court to rule unanimously on a case that is so important.
Even many liberals who had fought against communism found themselves smeared by the red scare.
Sounds similar to the events of today, though more socialist than communist.
middle-class women were told to return to housekeeping responsibilities. Having fought and died abroad for American democracy, black soldiers were told to return home and accept the American racial order. Homosexuality, already stigmatized, became dangerous. Personal secrets were seen as a liability that exposed one to blackmail. The same paranoid mind-set that fueled the red scare also ignited the Cold War “lavender scare” against gay Americans.”
The idea that Americans decided that equal rights for all was anti-American ideology at the time makes me shameful of my country's ignorance.
Director J. Edgar Hoover petitioned Truman to suspend habeus corpus and detain 12,000 Americans suspected of disloyalty. Hoover grew increasingly frustrated with what he saw as the Supreme Court’s obstruction of his ability to prosecute people for political opinions.
The more I hear about Hoover, the more I find him wholly against the idea of freedom.
. General Dwight Eisenhower, the hero of D-Day, decided to run as a Republican although Truman had expected him to join the Democratic Party.
I see a running theme of Presidents being elected for their popularity gained on the battlefield. Not to say generals don't make good politicians, I just find it interesting that generals find quick success in elections after war despite them not being career politicians.
communist parties in France and Italy gained nearly a third of the seats in their respective parliaments.
I find it funny that despite having communist friends myself, and recognizing the non Soviet vein of it to be a legitimate ideology, I still have warning bells going off in my brain whenever communism in government ever enters our textbooks. I believe it comes from a lifetime of equating communism the ideology with the USSR and China that were made into examples of why it wouldn't work in practice by high school teachers. The remnants of the red scare truly haven't left us.
Some critics found FDR’s relief programs too conservative.
To hear today that Roosevelt's many government enacted policies were considered conservative is weird to hear, but after a very loud denunciation of an inactive government when Hoover was not reelected, it is unsurprising that the loud complaints Roosevelt heard were ones that cried for more government heavy action.
Fireside Chats
The amount of genius in this move is not to be understated. By doing this simple act of explaining himself to the American people directly he becomes more familiar and understood to them. Roosevelt will not be Herbert Hoover sitting in his office on his hands, for the American people these chats showed work and effort for a better future.
“This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”
I always wonder how much of a President's speech is made by a speech writer, which words belong to the President and what words belong to his writer. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," is such an iconic Roosevelt line that it's interesting that we are okay with forgetting the writers that assist the presidents.
Another Hooverville in Seattle, Washington, located on Port of Seattle tidal flats, 1935.
From images I have seen of Hoovervilles I had always assumed they were more like homeless housing today, mostly some kind of tent. This image speaks to how long these people had to live in these situations because they actually built houses with chimneys and windows and proper roofs for what is made out to be just a large amount of homeless people in one area when they're referred to in history books
Several veterans were killed in the attack.
Reading this I am actually horrified. From the beginning of this section to my annotation I read with my mouth wide open. I have never been taught this fact while learning about Hoover and I don't understand why, The worst thing I have ever read about Hoover up until this point is that he was mostly inactive During the Depression, this does so much for his character in my eyes that I can't believe I haven't heard about it earlier.
The size and scope of the Depression overpowered the capacity of private volunteerism organizations to fix the crisis.
There's only so much volunteer work people can do before change needed to be made to the economy itself. These volunteer groups basically put a band-aid over a major stab wound.
It is only between closely related stocks of the same race that interbreeding has improved men; the kind of interbreeding that went on in the early days of America between English, Dutch, German, Huguenot, Irish, and Scotch.
I really appreciate how closely this almost makes incest somehow a way to improve people and is only saved by the inclusion of "the same race" which would be enough people to stay away from it. It is only a step away from the egyptian pharoah policy of keeping blood pure. It also seems odd that the clan would bring up Irish as a people to aim for, as Ireland is not a traditionally protestant country.
cowards and jackasses if now that that war is over, we do not marshal every ounce of our brain and brawn to fight a sterner, longer, more unbending battle against the forces of hell in our own land.
This rallying cry would hit soldiers where they lived, to call a soldier coward during the war was a major insult and by no means would they enjoy being called that for not fighting an enemy that can't even kill them.
“They threaten us with degeneracy; they cannot be educated.”
In a similar fashion to how minority groups are treated in other places of the world, stereotypes of a group are only present because the majority group thrust that stereotype upon the minority.
stand again to look America squarely in the face and call a spade a spade.
Now that they are home they must recognize that their country has issues and continue to fight for change.
for the dominant southern oligarchy entrenched in Washington, we fought in bitter resignation. For the America that represents and gloats in lynching, disfranchisement, caste, brutality and devilish insult
Despite the problems back at home the US soldiers fought to help uphold American ideals, while still representing things they might disagree with back home.