Anti-Vietnam War Senator from Arkansas, he was head of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. De Facto means "it is that way because it just is," and De Jure means that there are rules and laws behind it. Chief Justice Earl Warren ruled that they both acted alone. Helping Blacks to find jobs and homes, it was founded in 1966 and was a social service agency providing facts about discrimination. This young senator was from a wealthy Bostonian family, was Roman Catholic, and became the country's youngest president. Southern communities were more rural and Northern communities more urban.

1941-42 - Interracial until 1962, when it became predominately Black, after 1964, only Blacks were allowed to join. This act did not introduce a new law but was aimed at strengthening and covering loopholes in the Civil Rights Act of 1957.It established: South Vietnam is bordered by Laos and Cambodia on the west. kennedy ordered their immediate removal, but Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev refused. French wanted out of Vietnam , the agreement signed by Ho Chi Minh France divided Vietnam on the 17th parallel, confining Minh's government to the North. Founded in 1909 to improve living conditions for inner city Blacks, evolved into a national organization dedicated to establishing equal legal rights for Blacks. Segregationist Alabama governor: In 1968, became a third-party candidate for president, lost to Nixon. A proponent of Black Power, he succeeded Stokely Carmichael as head of SNCC. 1962: He was an African American civil rights advocate who spurred a riot at the University of Mississippi. In effect, this was the beginning of the end of U.S. military involvement in Vietnam. In Vietnam, a five mile wide DMZ was established between the North and South along the 17th parallel.

It was designed to deal with discriminatory laws and practices in the segregated South, by which blacks and Mexican Texans had been effectively disenfranchised since the late 19th and start of the 20th century. At first urged Blacks to seize their freedom by any means necessary, but later changed position and advocated racial harmony. 1436. American public opinion now opposed the war and increasingly demenaded that the US pull out of the war-torn country. Late 1950's, early 1960's, these were nonviolent demonstrations and marches that challenged segregation laws, often braving attacks by angry White mobs. Despite his oppressive, hostile, corrupt rule, the US gave him significant economic and military resources because Diem was a staunch anticommunist. Technically illegal because Cambodia and Laos were neutral, but done because North Vietnam was itself illegally moving its troops through those areas. December, 1955 - In Montgomery, Alabama, she refused to give up her bus seat for a White man as required by city ordinance. The riot was caused by angry whites who did not want Meredith to register at the university. He feared that the combined lobbying efforts of the armed services and industries that contracted with the military would lead to excessive Congressional spending. October, 1962 - The Act gave the President the power to reduce tariffs in order to promote trade. Ho Chi Minh wanted to unite Vietnam under Northern rule and aided this group of communist rebels trying to overthrow Diem in the south. November, 22, 1963 - Oswald shot Kennedy from a Dallas book depository building, and was later himself killed by Jack Ruby. Headed by Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., a coalition of churches and Christians organizations who met to discuss civil rights. The U.S. blockaded Cuba until the U.S.S.R. agreed to dismantle the missile silos. Flamboyant Congressman from Harlem and chairman of the House and Labor Committee, he was elected to the House of Representatives in 1968, but removed from office for alleged misuse of funds. 1954 - The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated. They claimed the "White Devil" was the chief source of evil in the world. 1425. Outlawed White primaries held by the Democratic Party, in violation of the 15th Amendment.

1487. While not advocating th use of violence, he did encourage followers to respond to violence, perpetrated aanst them with violence in self-defense. Kent State: May 4, 1970 - National Guardsmen opened fire on a group of students protesting the Vietnam War. In 1973, DDT was banned in the U.S. except for use in extreme health emergencies. The Supreme Court declared that the principle of "one person, one vote" must be following at both state and national levels. Desegregation of the Armed Forces, 1948. The invasion force landed at the Bay of Pigs in Southern Cuba, but received no popular support and were quickly wiped out by Castro's forces. He then sent federal marshals to protect the bus riders, signaling a victory for CORE. He had traveled in Europe, was an ardent Communist, and became President of the North Vietnamese government established after the French withdrawal. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Police chief Bull Connor, responded by ordering the police to attack, with fire hoses, electric cattle prods, tear gas and police dogs. The Declaration of Independence by the Vietnamese was proclaimed in Hanoi on September 2, 1945. This act repealed the discriminatory practices of the Quota Acts of the 1920s by allowing first-come, first-serve entrance into the U.S.

Civil Rights Act of 1960 This act was aimed at extending the life of the Civil Rights Commission and giving the US attorney general the authority to inspec lcal and state voting records for federal elections. He was ultimately assassinated in 1968, leaving Nixon to take the presidency but instilling hope in many Americans. 1454.

This portion of the Act stated that public accommodations could not be segregated and that nobody could be denied access to public accommodation on the basis of race. His liberal attitudes led conservative groups to brand him a communist and lobby for his impeachment. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Earl Warren used the Court's authority to support civil rights and individual liberties. 1432. In the spring of 1954, the Viet Minh surrounded and destroyed the primary French fortress in North Vietnam at Dien Bien Phu.

Kennedy, the Democrat, won 303 electoral votes, Nixon, the Republican, won 219 electoral votes, Byrd, the Independent, won 15 electoral votes. Detroit: July, 1967, the army was called in to restore order in race riots that resulted in 43 dead and $200,000,000 in damages. Kent State Incident, Jackson State Incident. North Vietnamese leader who had lead the resistance against the Japanese during WW II and at the end of the war had led the uprising against the French Colonial government. When the invasion ended in disaster, President Kennedy took full responsibility for the failure. In August 1963, civil rights leaders organized a massive rally in Washington to urge passage of President Kennedy's civil rights bill. Invited local communities to establish community action agencies (CAA's) to be funded through the office of economic opportunity; allowed poor to run antipoverty programs in their own neighborhoods. 1410. Had a total membership of over 15 million. Kennedy won by a narrow margin; First televised debate, Kennedy (due to televised charisma) won over Nixon (pale and nervous). In 1946, war broke out between communist insurgents in North Vietnam, called the Viet Minh, and the French Colonial government. His most important legislation was probably Medicare and Medicaid.

Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. It was a massive Vietcong offensive that moved the war from the rural areas to the streets of Saigon. It concentrated on organizing votes for Black candidates and political causes, successful even in states like Mississippi and Alabama. Created by the U.S. Commission of Civil Rights and the Civil Rights division of the Justice Department. McKinley had purchased Alaska in 1867 for nine cents an acre and it was admitted to the Union in 1959.