Summarize the accomplishments of Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society legislation.

1. Of the several Lyndon B Johnson major accomplishments, the Great Society legislation was perhaps the most significant. It was his signature legislation that upheld civil rights, brought in laws governing public broadcasting, environmental protection, Medicare and Medicaid, abolition of poverty and aid to education.

2. He brought in the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 & 1968 that outlawed racial segregation. The laws also ensured equal housing opportunities for all regardless of creed, religion, race and national origin. He also enforced voting rights to eliminate all kinds of discrimination in voting through the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

3. Lyndon B Johnson showed the way and proved he was ahead of his peers when he appointed the first African American judge, Thurgood Marshall, in the Supreme Court.

4. Johnson was passionate about education, which led him to bring in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and Higher Education Act. The law allowed the improvement of schools with special funding. He particularly focused on the schools in the poorer districts across the country.

5. President Johnson set up the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts which provided optimum support to artists and humanists.

6. His pledge to alleviate poverty saw him initiating food stamps, Medicare, Medicaid, Work Study and Head Start among various other programs. He did manage to make an impact on poverty during his six years in office.

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7. President Lyndon B Johnson oversaw the Apollo 8 program, the first manned flight to the Moon.

8. While domestically President Johnson had several innovative initiatives, he was not too far behind with his foreign policies or stands on immigration and other matters. He brought in the Immigration Act of 1965, which allowed non Europeans an easier route to immigrate to the United States. Till then the immigration system was largely biased or focused on Europeans. Other nationalities were not benefited but the liberalization of the system changed that reality.

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the years following the end of world war i were a period of deep social tensions, aggrevated by high wartime inflation. food prices more than doubled between 1915 and 1920; clothing costs more than tripled. a steel strike that began in chicago in 1919 became much more than a simple dispute between labor and management. the steel strike of 1919 became the focal point for profound social anxieties, especially fears of bolshevism.

organized labor had grown in strength during the course of the war. many unions won recognition and the 12-hour workday was abolished. an 8-hour days was instituted on war contract work and by 1919, half the country's workers had a 48-hour work week.

the war's end, however, was accompanied by labor turmoil, as labor demanded union recognition, shorter hours, and raises exceeding the inflation rate. over 4 million workers--one fifth of the nation's workforce--participated in strikes in 1919, including 365,000 steelworkers and 400,000 miners. the number of striking workers would not be matched until the depression year of 1937.

the year began with a general strike in seattle. police offers in boston went on strike, touching off several days of rioting and crime. but the most tumultuous strike took place in the steel industry. then some 350,000 steelworkers in 24 separate craft union went on strike as part of a drive by the american federation of labor to unionize the industry. from management's perspective, the steel strike represented the handiwork of radicals and professional labor agitators. the steel industry's leaders regarded the strike as a radical conspiracy to get the company to pay a 12-hour wage for eight hours' work. at a time when communists were seizing power in hungary and were staging a revolt in germany, and workers in italy were seizing factories, some industrialists feared that the steel strike was the first step toward overturning the industrial system.

the strike ended with the complete defeat of the unions. from labor's perspective, the corporations had triumphed through espionage, blacklists, and the denial of freedom of speech and assembly and through the complete unwillingness to recognize the right of collective bargaining with the workers' representatives.

during the 1920s, many of labor's gains during world war i and the progressive era were rolled back. membership in labor unions fell from 5 million to 3 million. the us supreme court outlawed picketing, overturned national child labor laws, and abolished minimum wage laws for women.