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Vietnam and Civil Rights. Daddy's teenage years.

By johnweber1

  • Dien Bien Phu

    Vietmihn forces overpowered the French at the town of Dien Bien phu

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    The supreme court ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional

  • Rosa Parks

    Mongomery, Alabama seamstress Rosa Parks refused to take the backseat of the buss for a white person to sit in her place near the front.

  • Mongomery Bus Boytcott

    MLK jr. organized and lead a boycott of the public transportation system in Montgomery, Alabama. This is the same city Rosa Parks was arrested in for refusing to give up her seat for a white person.

  • Little Rock Crisis

    Soldiers of the 101st Airborn division blocked black students from integrating in Little Rock Central Highschool

  • Sit In

    4 black students were refused service at a coffee shop and sat at the booths and would not leave until it closed as an act of protest and defiance of segregation.

  • Freedom Riders

    The freedom riders, mostly college students, opposing segregation on public transportation rode busses from state to state

  • James Meredith

    Meredith tried to transfer schools but was refused because he was black only.

  • Wallace Defies Kennedy

    Alabama governor, stood at the entrance to the Univesity of Alabama to block black students from registering.

  • March on Washington

    MLK jr. and more than 200,000 people marched on Washington to protest segregation and civil rights

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Congress passed the bill to give full government power over racial discrimination laws and policies

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Senate and House pass presidents authority to take "necessary" measurements to repel armed attacks in Vietnam.

  • Bombing Campaign

    LBJ starts a bombing campaign agaisnt North Vietnam

  • National Teach In

    122 colleges across America held anti-war protests

  • Tet Offensive

    Guerilla forces attacked many US bases on the Chinese new year, wh8ile American forces thought there would be a time of peace.

  • Kent State Massacre

    4 students were killed and eight were injured when National Gaurd troops opened fire on protesters at Kent State university

  • Withdrawal

    Nixon announced the withdrawal of 25,000 troops from Vietnam-

  • Secret Talks Start

    Henry Kissinger representing the United States started a series of secret meeting with the North Vietnamese leaders to come to a peaceful end of the war

  • Peace Talks End (temporary)

    Henry Kissinger and the North Vietnamese representatives and leaders could not come to a mutual agreement and talks were ended by the North.

  • Agreement Signed

    The US and North Vietnamese forces signed an agreement to stop the fightng and restore the country to a normal state of peacefull functioning.