In Johnson’s early quest for liberalism he found two different viewpoints. Classical liberalism which let people do what they wanted without any or little interference from the government, which Johnson was highly against. The second form was “modern” liberalism which allowed the people to have freedoms but required regulation from the government. However, there was one more form of liberalism that Johnson would later modernize. It was Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal Liberalism” which consisted of Roosevelt’s four basic fr

In February 18, 1965 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. conducted a march from Selma, Alabama in order to demonstrate for the right to vote for African-Americans. The peaceful march ended when Sheriff Clark and Alabama State Troopers “disbursed the unarmed protest”. During the quarrel there was one fatality. A young African-American man named Jimmie Lee Jackson who was shot to death. This action went against Johnson’s form of liberalism because he didn’t understand why the people didn’t take a political approach for the right to vote. Johnson believed they should be writing there senators, governors, and congressman to try and get a bill passed for the safe right to register and vote.

eedoms. The first two freedoms included freedom of speech and freedom of religion. The last two were freedom from want and freedom from fear. Schulman states that “These last two freedoms represented guaranteed security against economic depression and foreign aggression, freedoms that only an energetic, vigilant big government could assure.”

Being one of Johnson’s advisors, Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a report on the war on poverty which developed two main arguments. “It found the roots of black poverty, unemployment and ghetto life, in the breakdown of the black family.” It stated that most black families lacked a male headed household and that “it created a cycle of poverty and despair”. The second argument was that “Moynihan blamed the disintegration of the black family on the profound, even crippling legacy of slavery. Moynihan stated that the impact of slavery continued psychological and social effects on black America. Many African-Americans were insulted by the Moynihan report and felt that he was blaming the victims of bigotry rather than the oppressors, and “of ignoring and patronizing the real achievements of black culture.” Even though Johnson had always maintained a universal outlook on the war on poverty he was highly criticized for his advisors report. New left critics believed that although Johnson tried to speak on national unity, he really wanted to “whiten everyone, to stamp out cultural differences, to enforce conformity to a dominant white male, middle-class system of values”.

During this time, Johns

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