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| Kennedy when he was nominated in 1960 |
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| New Frontier: General Tax Cut |
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| Proposed in 1963 but not started until after his death. |
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| New Frontier: Minimum wage increase |
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| New Frontier: Area Development Act |
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| 1961, Kennedy-to reduce poverty in urban and rural areas |
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| New Frontier: Housing Act |
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| 1961, provided money for urban renewal, made available loans for long-term periods at low interest rates. |
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| New Frontier: Manpower Development and Training Act |
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| 1961, $900 mil public works program authorized to provide jobs for retrained workers. |
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| New Frontier: Black Americans appointed by Kennedy |
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Carl Rowan --> Ambassador to Finland
Robert Weaver --> Home Finance Admin
Thrugood Marshal --> Appointed to US circuit court |
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| New Frontier: committee on Equal Employment |
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| March 1961, to improve job opportunities for black Americans |
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| 1963, Kennedy sent US marshals to escort him to study in University of Missisippi |
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-Threatened by Kennedy (Fed Troops) to integrate his school, Uni of Alabama
- Was governor of Alabama |
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| Kennedy's New Frontier Speech |
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| "We stand at the edge of a New Frontier - The frontier of unfulfilled hopes and dreams. It will deal with the unstated problems of peace and war, unconquered pockets of ignorance and prejudice, unanswered questions of poverty and surplus." |
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| June 1963 of New Frontier |
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| Kennedy puts forward Civil Rights Package: ban discrimnation in employment, guarantee equal rights and equal access 2 public housing. But he was assass. before the measure was passed. |
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| Johnston taking over Kennedy and his aims.1964 |
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| Banned discrimination in public accomodations, fed-assisted prog. and employ. Fed gove gained new power -> enforce deseg. and presecute voting rights violators |
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| Economic Oppurtunity Act 1964 |
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| Launched "war on poverty", creating nationwide fed. prog. such as Head Start, Job Corps, and VISTA, within the Office of Economic Oppurtunty. |
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| Elementary + Secondary Education Act 1965 |
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| First Major fed.aid package for education |
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| Medicare + Medicaid, fed-funded healthcare. |
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| No literacy test for voting, fed. agents allowed to moniter registration. |
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| Ended discriminatory ethnic quotas. |
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| Min wage raised from 1.25 to 1.4 |
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| Funded clearing of slums and building of new housing projects, rec-facilities and mass transmit. |
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