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African Americans made up 10 percent of military personnel.
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122 college students held a National Teach-In.This was a radio broadcast that more than 100,000 antiwar demonstrators listened to. -
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Faculty and students joined together to discuss their reasons for opposing the war. -
Over 3,000 Americans were prosecuted because they refused to serve in the war.
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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held educational hearings in Vietnam.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. publicly opposed the disparity of African American deaths to White deaths during the war.
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Eugene McCarthy decided to run against Johnson in the next election.
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The Vietcong and North Vietnamese launched a surprise attack in which they attacked American airbases in South Vietnam and the South's major cities. -
People were randomly assigned numbers and those with low numbers were selected for the war
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All citizens age 18 and older had the right to vote in state and federal elections.