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Emmett Till, a 14 yr old boy was murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman. Jet magazine brought attention to the civil rights movement nationally after they published a photo of his body in an open casket funeral.
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Rosa Parks was riding a bus in Montgomery, Alabama and refused to give up her seat to a white man, eventually leading to the Montgomery bus boycott.
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60 black civil rights leaders and priests, meet in Atlanta, Georgia to form non-violent protests against segregation and racial discrimination.
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Ngo Dinh Diem Government shoots at a crowd of Buddhist protesters in Hue, Vietnam killing 8 people (children included)
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The United States helped a military and political opposition against Diem and led to his death and therefore a change in government 12 times over two years in south Vietnam.
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Around 250,000 People take part in the March On Washington including Martin Luther King Jr. who gave his "I have a dream" speech.
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The Civil Rights Act is signed by President Johnson, preventing discrimination of employment due to race, gender, or religion, or origin.
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President Johnson ordered several North Vietnam-targeted bombings after the Voet Cong raid on the U.S. Base in Pleiku.
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Operation Starlite, a 6 day operation successfully diffused the Viet Cong Regiment with around 5500 US Marines. The Viet Cong rebuilds quickly
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President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act preventing literacy tests to be used as a voting requirement.