ABSTRACT
Lyndon Johnson pursued a "Great Society" image, which included his war on poverty as well as his pursuit of civil rights for African Americans and other minority groups. The Civil Rights movement, pioneered in the late 1950s by young African Americans, flowered in the 1960s and led to tangible victories for blacks seeking entrance into mainstream institutions, including the public schools. The 1960s appeared to be a time of genuine fracturing in relations between America's young people and their elders. The bilingual education movement began in the 1960s as a response to the comprehensive problems that Mexican Americans and other Spanish-speaking youngsters confronted in schools with an all-English curriculum. Political protest by various youth, minority, and feminist groups reached radical proportions by the late 1960s and triggered a reactionary movement on the part of many conservative Americans. One group of educational critics that did attend to the budding educational equality movement was the "romantic critics" of the late 1960s.
