{"id":144972,"date":"2025-03-28T17:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T17:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=144972"},"modified":"2025-03-28T17:08:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T17:08:16","slug":"trumps-2025-seeks-to-reverse-lbjs-1965","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=144972","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Trump&#8217;s 2025 seeks to reverse LBJ&#8217;s 1965&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/03\/22\/trump-2025-reverse-lbj-1965-civil-rights-poverty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Axios<\/a>: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/politics-policy\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Trump<\/a>\u00a0has embarked on a systematic effort to unravel Lyndon B. Johnson&#8217;s civil rights legacy,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/01\/22\/trump-dei-lbj-rollback\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rolling back protections<\/a>\u00a0that have shaped American life for nearly six decades&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>The big picture:<\/strong>&nbsp;Two months into his term, Trump already has overturned, weakened or targeted LBJ policies on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/03\/08\/selma-bloody-sunday-60-anniversary-voting-rights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voting rights<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/03\/18\/trump-end-segregated-facilities-ban-contracts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">desegregation<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/places\/000\/the-environmental-president.htm#:~:text=During%20his%20administration%20President%20Johnson,use%20were%20put%20into%20effect.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the environment<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lbjlibrary.org\/news-and-press\/media-kits\/immigration-and-nationality-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">immigration<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lbjlibrary.org\/news-and-press\/media-kits\/higher-education-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">education<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/millercenter.org\/the-presidency\/educational-resources\/lbj-on-affirmative-action\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">affirmative action<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/milestone-documents\/medicare-and-medicaid-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">health care<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">Within hours of taking office, Trump\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/ending-illegal-discrimination-and-restoring-merit-based-opportunity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revoked LBJ&#8217;s 1965 executive order<\/a>\u00a0mandating &#8220;equal opportunity&#8221; for people of color and women in the recruitment, hiring and training of federal contractors.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Trump&#8217;s new order triggered sweeping changes to anti-discrimination rules \u2014 including a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acquisition.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/caac\/CAAC_Letter_2025-01.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">little-noticed memo<\/a>\u00a0stating that the federal government no longer would\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/03\/18\/trump-end-segregated-facilities-ban-contracts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unequivocally prohibit<\/a>\u00a0contractors from operating &#8220;segregated facilities.&#8221;&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Axios: &#8220;President Trump\u00a0has embarked on a systematic effort to unravel Lyndon B. Johnson&#8217;s civil rights legacy,\u00a0rolling back protections\u00a0that have shaped American life for nearly six decades&#8230;. The big picture:&nbsp;Two months into his term, Trump already has overturned, weakened or targeted LBJ policies on&nbsp;voting rights,&nbsp;desegregation,&nbsp;the environment,&nbsp;immigration,&nbsp;education,&nbsp;affirmative action&nbsp;and&nbsp;health care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144973,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144972\/revisions\/144973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}