Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Cornerstone Of The Great Society

Lyndon Baines Johnson was inaugurated for presidency in 1964 after Kennedy was assassinated. He is from Texas, and received his teaching degree at Southwest Texas State Teachers College in 1930. He had to finance his own teaching credentials and took a year off and taught at a Mexican-American school in Cotulla, Texas. He taught young Mexicans to speak English and gave them a good education. Later in his years, he started public speaking at the Sam Houston High School in Houston. When he was 26, he became the state’s director for the national youth administration, a New Deal Agency. He then got interested in politics and became part of the Senate at the age 45.
After serving a long career in the U.S. Congress and Senate, Johnson became the

The VISTA program was the cornerstone of the Great Society, which means that it was funded by the government for the people who are unfortunate. In May 1964, Johnson gave a speech at the University of Michigan, Johnson outlined a legislative program that would end poverty and racial injustice. But, he told an enthusiastic crowd, that was “just the beginning.” Johnson envisioned a legislative program that would create not only a higher standard of living and equal opportunity, but also promote a richer quality of

Congress also made housing cheap for and built 240,000 houses in rural and urban areas across America from the Great Society program. Not to mention they were for the low income and moderate income families for less. This had developed the Housing and Urban Development and in charge of that was the first African American to be a cabinet member in American History, Robert Weaver, as secretary of HUD.
The Great Society also brought back the immigration laws that established the stop of discrimination towards people that were from Western Europe. The acts sets rules for people annually across America for more the Southeast Asians and western Europeans who settles in the US. The Immigration Act of 1965 was pass by Johnson, that let many non-Europeans settle here in America. This act would expand the average American population and doubled that, for people who come here legally. Based on the numbers, it raised from 258,039,349 people to 321,847,390 people which is miraculous to most people in the