Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam

By wizardo

  • JFK is elected as president

  • War Resisters League organizes first U.S. protest against the Vietnam War and "anti-Buddhist terrorism" by the U.S.-supported South Vietnamese regime with a demonstration at the US Mission to the UN in New York City.

  • Malcolm X is assassinated in Harlem at the Audubon Ballroom

  • King leads a march to the Pettus bridge, turning the marchers around at the bridge.

  • "Bloody Sunday"

    600 civil rights activists, including Hosea Williams of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and John Lewis of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), leave Selma, Alabama, traveling eastward on Route 80 toward Montgomery, Alabama.

  • Sociology department head William Sewell organizes a well-attended antiwar teach-in on the University of Wisconsin at Madison campus, reflecting his belief that the U.S. doesn't have "any business over there" in Vietnam.

  • King makes a speech against the Vietnam War at Riverside Church in New York.

  • The Supreme Court hands down a decision in Loving v. Virginia, overturning laws against interracial marriage as unconstitutional.

  • Carl Stokes is elected mayor of Cleveland, making him the first Black person to serve as mayor of a major American city.

  • Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

    Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.