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Start of the Vietnam War
According to kidsappdailynews, ”The war's start was formally established as Aug. 5, 1964, when President Lyndon B. Johnson said that North Vietnamese gunboats attacked two U.S. Navy destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.” President John F. Kennedy sent troops to South Vietnam to defend the people there. -
The Montgomery Bus Boycott Emergence of the Little Rock Nine
“regarded as the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation. Four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested and fined for refusing to yield her bus seat to a white man.” According to wikipedia -
Brown v. Board of Education March on Washington
high school and college students came to Washington, D.C. to demand the implementation of the 1954 Brown v. Board Supreme Court decision. Petition for Integrated Schools. -
Jfk assassnation
john F. Kennedy was murder by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas texas in a presidential motorcade. -
Lyndon B. Johnson’s transition to President
Lyndon B. Johnson's tenure as the 36th president of the United States began on November 22, 1963 following the assassination of President Kennedy and ended on January 20, 1969. He had been vice president for 1,036 days when he succeeded to the presidency.” According to wikipedia -
Civil Rights Act Passed
n 1964, Congress passed Public Law 88-352 (78 Stat. 241). The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing. -
Start of the Black Panther Party
It was a revolutionary organization with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality.” According to wikipedia -
Muhammad Ali Refuses to fight in the Vietnam War
Ali received news he had been drafted to fight in Vietnam. When Ali arrived to be inducted in the United States Armed Forces, however, he refused, citing his religion forbade him from serving According to wikipedia -
Mlk assasnation
Jesse Jackson murder Martin Luther King out of hate. According to his family and friends he was an outspoken racist -
Bobby Hutton assassination
“Bobby Hutton, the very first recruit to Oakland's Black Panther Party, was shot multiple times after he'd surrendered to the police.” According to wikipedia -
James Brown’s Say it Loud, I’m Black and I am Proud release
James Brown set the standard for dynamic live performance in American music. Inspired by preachers in the Black church, Brown started out singing in gospel quartets. He made songs that inspired many people such as “ I’m black and I am proud.” -
End of the Vietnam War
The vietnam war ended by seizing control of South Vietnam in 1975, and the country was unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam the following year.according to wikipedia