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May 2nd Movement
1000 students marched through Times Square and 700 marched through San Francisco to the United Nations to protest what was called the "U.S Intervention" on behalf of the government of South Vietnam. -
May 12 draft card burning
12 young men in New York publicly burned their draft card to protest their card. The first act of War resistance. -
Muhammad Ali
refused to go to war, stating that he had "no quarrel with the Viet Cong." he also stated that he would not go "10,000 miles to help murder, kill, and burn other people to simply help continue the domination of white slave masters over dark people. -
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Summary of Timeline
The Opposition of the Vietnam War was so intense because the Citizens of the U.S didn't want to involve themselves in other nations conflicts. This war made a lot U.S citizens mad and it made President Johnson fall into embarrassment for failing to win the war against North Vietnam and didn't want to go into reelection in 1969.
The Civil Rights in correlation of the Vietnam was a domestic problem since we had a lot of problems involving discrimination of African-American. -
Bloody Sunday
600 civil rights activists that include, Hosea Williams of the SCLC, John Lewis of the SNCC marched from Selma, AL to Montgomery, AL for the protest of the killing of Jimmy Lee Jackson, an unarmed demonstrator killed during a march by an AL State Trooper. the activists got beaten by clubs, sprayed by water hoses, and tear gas. -
Alice Herz
An 82-year-old Detroit women has immolated (burn) and kill herself to make a statement of the horrors of the war. -
End Your Silence
an open letter in the New York Times by the group Artists and Writers Protest against the War in Vietnam. -
March Against Fear
James Meredith embarks on a "March Against Fear" from Memphis, TN. to Jackson, MS. to encourage Black Mississippians to register to vote. Near Hernando, MS., Meredith is Shot. Others joined the March accompanied with King. On the 26th, the marchers reach Jackson, and Stokley Carmichael made a "Black Power" Speech -
Loving v. Virgina
Richard and Mildred Loving, a white man and a black woman whose marriage was announced illegal in Virginia State laws. Supreme Court deems the marriage as unconstitutional. -
Poor People's Campaign
A movement to unite the poor and disenfranchise of America, regardless of race or religion. -
Fair Housing Act
President Johnson Signs the Fair Housing Act into law, which prohibits discrimination by sellers and renters of properties.
