Module 6 Discussion: The Impact Martin Luther King Jr.

This module guides you through the presidential administrations of Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. It includes the foreign policy crises of the 1950s and the creation of a domestic consumer culture. The module introduces the civil rights movement, some of the brave steps taken to expand equality, and the often-reluctant response of white America, especially during the early 1960s. The movement for equality shifted during the later 1960s away from the legislature toward achieving equality in everyday life. The year 1968 is highlighted as a dramatic one, and the impact of the social revolution is summarized. Here are some reminders that will help you achieve success this week. • The module lectures and Author Insight Videos are a good place to start.• Chapter 28 & 29 Author Insight Videos o Dissent and Anxiety in Postwar American Society | View Transcripto Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society | View TranscriptPowerPoints for Chapters 28 & 29• Chapter 28 PowerPoint• Chapter 29 PowerPoint• For your Critical Thinking assignment this week, you will choose to create a slide presentation either about why we lost in Vietnam or about social revolutions in 1968.Required• Chapter 28 and 29 in America: A Narrative History.• Kennedy, J.F. (January 20, 1961). Inaugural address, 20 January 1961. [motion picture]. 9WO#30806, RG274). Records of the White House Signal Agency. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston, MA. Retrieved from http://www(dot)jfklibrary(dot)org/Asset-Viewer/BqXIEM9F4024ntFl7SVAjA.aspx.• Kreis, S. (2012). Lecture 15: 1968, The year of the barricades. The History Guide. Retrieved from http://www(dot)historyguide(dot)org/europe/lecture15.html. Recommended• Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. (2017)(n.d.) The Cuban missile crisis. Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Retrieved from:  http://www(dot)cubanmissilecrisis(dot)org/• Gallagher, J. (2007). Waging: The good fight: The political career of Shirley Chisholm, 1953-1982. Journal of African American History, 92(3), 392-416.