1. President George Bush, our 43 rd. President, in a noted speech in Africa at Goree Island Senegal, described the “forced migration of slavery in America, as one of the greatest crimes of history.” He also ended his historic speech by not only extolling the herculean efforts of protest for change of various Americans to end this terrible blight in the Republic”, but arguing that the nation was on the right course, eventually.Many, in the nation and beyond, viewed the election of the 44th President Barack Obama, as a sign that finally major progress would now be hastened on the race relations front. Political pundits, and even social scientists, described this new phenomenon as “post racial America.” Yet, in reality, it is now largely agreed that the Obama era has seen a hardening and worsening of Race Relations in the nation.a) How do you explain this phenomenon, especially in the context of our analysis and examination of some of the protest leaders and national mood during these 15 weeks? How for example did LBJ, Reagan and MLK try, if any, to move America in a positive direction?b) Finally outline a programmatic schema (legislative, executive action, educational economic, etc.) and through “protest for change”, that you contend would positively modify this blot on our democracy/ republic, and hasten the incremental change slowly being made.as an attachment.2. Policy makers, commentators and academics have all tried to draw parallels between the historical juncture and policy dilemmas faced by President Johnson as he was trying to make a decision between two “contending imperatives “- the WAR ON POVERTY and the WAR IN VIETNAM; and the situation President Obama faced on taking office in dealing with a severe fiscal recession – impacting employment massively and negatively- while executing a WAR IN AFGHANISTAN, which he himself had once described as a necessary one , and the ongoing WAR ON TERROR.a) What were the major issues facing LBJ, the divergent policy options; and what was his decision and with what consequences?b) What are/were the major issues the Obama administration faced, what were the divergent policy options and what was his decisions and with what consequences? Has President Trump tried in his own way to bring about an end to the long war in Afghanistan? With what results????c) Finally, do you see any parallels between President Johnson’s actions in Vietnam and President Obama’s in Afghanistan? Why or why not? Explain fully!3. Much to Betty Freidan’ s credit the U. S Congress approved the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in1972, and by 1973, 30 states had ratified it. Yet the ERA encountered significant opposition from Phyllis Schlafly and others.a) Evaluate the assumptions and actions of Schlafly about women’s rights and women’s role in American society.b) Did these assumptions apply equally to minority women?c) How did this posture affect the candidacy of Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm (the first African American woman in the US Congress) for the US Presidency?d) Why did Schlafly oppose feminism? Who were her supporters? In what ways did she attack N.O.W?e) Finally, what would you state are the effects of the legacy of Betty Freidan and the Women’s Movement of the 1970’s on the state of the evolution of Women’s successes and failures, in American society currently, especially with reference to the failure of Hillary Clinton to, again, win the President of the USA and the growing effect of the “me too “movement.
