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Q: How did president Lyndon Johnson help blacks during his presidency?
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What did Lyndon B Johnson do to blacks?

He helped to improve blacks rights.


How did Lyndon Johnson Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter help or hurt blacks and why did they take the actions that they did?

They organized a plan to take out JFK which worked. They really had nothing to do with the blacks. But the reason they took out jfk because they sought him as a threat to them and lyndon was vp. so if jk got killed lyndon Johnson could run as president.


What presidents held office while segregation of blacks was the law of the land?

All of them through Lyndon Johnson.


What president outlawed poll tax and literacy tests for blacks?

President Johnson


Who was the president when blacks were made US citizens?

Andrew Johnson was the President when this 14th amendment was ratified.


Why did Johnson support the civil rights amendments?

He signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.


When were blacks allowed to share drinking facilities?

Segregated drinking fountains, along with other segregated public facilities, were outlawed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It was signed into law on July 2, 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson.


How many blacks did Kennedy appoint to various positions during his presidency?

He appointed 40 blacks in presidency.


Who was the most conciliatory to the desires of white southerners to deny rights and privileges to blacks?

President Johnson


Why was Lyndon B. Johnson important as a president?

He signed a bill, giving blacks in the south the right to vote for the first time. He helped to build up our economy through his "great society" program. He did a lot to promote not only civil rights but rights of all minority groups, and he was extremely intersted in having public education funded by the federal government.


What was Johnson's Unconditional War on Poverty?

Presiden Lyndon Baines Johnson wanted to get rid on the slums of cities, restored people stricken with poverty back to good measures, provided education for the less fortunate, and to give full rights to blacks and other minorities.


Held the view that Southern states should handle Reconstruction without Federal interference and that blacks should be given very limited rights?

President Andrew Johnson