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==Civil rights==
==Civil rights==
[[Democrat]] Leader Lyndon Johnson told Sen. Richard Russell, {{quotebox|"These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again."<ref>Said to Senator Richard Russell, Jr. (D-GA) regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1957. As quoted in [http://books.google.com/books?id=HS9aAAAAYAAJ ''Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream''] (1977), by Doris Kearns Goodwin, New York: New American Library, p. 155.</ref>}}
==War on Poverty==
==War on Poverty==
The War on Poverty was a set of programs instituted by President Johnson and its associated legislation passed by [[Congress]] in an effort to supposedly combat [[poverty]]. It was criticized extensively by [[conservative]]s because it expanded the [[welfare]] system and increased citizen dependency on the [[government]]. It was also reputed to have destroyed the Black family unit.
The War on Poverty was a set of programs instituted by President Johnson and its associated legislation passed by [[Congress]] in an effort to supposedly combat [[poverty]]. It was criticized extensively by [[conservative]]s because it expanded the [[welfare]] system and increased citizen dependency on the [[government]]. It was also reputed to have destroyed the Black family unit.