Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as president on Air Force One after John F. Kennedy's assassination. As president, Johnson outlined his Great Society programs to combat poverty and promote social justice. However, his presidency was also dominated by the escalating Vietnam War. The 1960s saw great social unrest and rise of new social movements advocating for civil rights, women's rights, and environmentalism. It was a turbulent time of both progress and conflict.

1. fig25_09.jpg Lyndon B. Johnson being sworn in as president on the plane taking him to Washington from Dallas. On the left is Lady Bird Johnson, and on the right, Jacqueline Kennedy.

3. The Presidential Election of 1964 • pg. 991 The Presidential Election of 1964

6. Figure 25.1 • pg. 994

9. fig25_02.jpg Sit-in movement begins in Greensboro, North Carolina, 1960

10. fig25_03.jpg Freedom Riders bus is bombed outside Anniston, Alabama

11. A fireman assaulting young African-American demonstrators with a high-pressure hose during the climactic demonstrations in Birmingham, June 1963. Broadcast on television, such pictures proved a serious problem for the United States in its battle for the “hearts and minds” of people around the world and forced the Kennedy administration to confront the contradiction between the rhetoric of freedom and the reality of racism.

12. fig25_14.jpg A semblance of normal life resumes amid the rubble of the Watts riot of August 1965.

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20. Mario Savio, a leader of the Free Speech Movement, addressing a crowd on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, in November 1966.

22. Part of the Gay Liberation Day demonstration in New York City in June 1970.

23. fig25_27.jpg César Chavez leading a march of striking Chicano farm workers in 1967.

29. Protestors in Chicago, 1968

31. The Presidential Election of 1968 • pg. 1019 The Presidential Election of 1968