1960s and public protests (Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam)

By emaliepowell

  • US military aid and advisers sent to South Vietnam

    Cold War era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975

  • Eisenhower sends troops

    Troops were sent to little Rock to ensure that students would be integrated at the Little Rock High School.

  • Civil Rights Movement

    The protests started during the late 50s early 60s and was based around the segregation of African Americans.

  • March on Washington DC to protest in support the Civil Rights bill

    March was organized by a group of civil rights leaders, which included between 200-300 thousand people and also included Martin Luther King Jr's speech

  • The Women’s Movement

    The contemporary women’s movement began in the late 1960s. Many women who participated in the movement had also worked in earlier movements, where they had often been relegated to menial tasks, such as photocopying and answering phones. Some began to protest these roles and to question the traditional roles for women in U.S. society.

  • The Student Movement

    The student movement was the next major social change movement to develop in the 1960s. Many of its early organizers had first become politically active in the early 1960s working alongside blacks in civil rights protests. Composed mainly of white college students, the student movement worked primarily to fight racism and poverty, increase student rights, and to end the Vietnam War.

  • Civil Rights Act Passes

    Outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women, including racial segregation. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public.

  • Voting Rights act passes

    Outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S.

  • US troops go to Vietnam

    Troops are sent to southern Vietnam

  • The Anti-Vietnam War Movement

    A variety of people in the United States had become active in a vocal movement to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. The U.S. government had become involved in the war because it did not want South Vietnam to be defeated by Communist North Vietnam. The United States government feared that if South Vietnam were defeated, Communism would spread throughout Southeast Asia.