Lyndon B Johnson's Inaugural Speech Outline

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The newly elected president of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson, was inaugurated on January 20, 1965. His vision was a world without hate and full of promise. In his speech, he said he would do his best to lead the country and achieve the Great Society. An estimated 1.2 million people attended the inaugural parade and the gathered in the Plaza total. Johnson’s inaugural ceremony and parade had the strictest security in the history of Washington D.C. Johnson rode in a bulletproof limousine and had four secret service agents around the car, along with two secret service cars following closely behind. Sir Winston Churchill died at ninety years of age on January 24, 1965 and was honored with a state funeral on January 30, 1965. He served as …show more content…

The march all started in response to the events of February 18, when state troopers clobbered protestors and shot a twenty-six year old man who was protecting his mother from the police. Civil rights leaders planned a fifty-four mile march from Selma to the capital of Montgomery. They started to march across the steel bridge that was constructed over the Alabama River, but a wall of state troopers stood on the other side. Behind the troopers was the county sheriff and a crowd of white spectators waving Confederate flags. The troopers advanced towards the marchers, and they knocked them to the ground, hit them with sticks, and threw tear gas at them. Police officers swung clubs, whips, and rubber tubes wrapped with barbed wire at the protesters as well. The protesters did not fight back; they just shifted …show more content…

When the movement started on March 21, there were only three hundred protestors, but by March 25, there were over 25,000. The demonstrators set out on their fifty-four mile long march on March 21, 1965, and the covered about seven to seventeen miles per day. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference were marching to campaign their voting rights. Although local black people made many attempts to register to vote, only two percent were on the voting

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