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Students for a Democratic Society
Also known as the SDS, their main efforts tried to fight against the war in Vietnam as they saw no reason as to why the United States needed to be involved.
~ Kenny Klein
~ Michael Herlihy
~ Sarah Weinstock -
Sit ins
Protestors (mainly African Americans) would sit down for longated periods of time until they were either kicked out or brutally beaten in order to fight for their rights.
~ Emmet Taylor -
Birmingham March
March organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which was the first major non violent march in the civil rights campaign.
~ Emmet Taylor -
Civil RIghts March on Washington D.C.
African Americans walked for Civil Rights on the capitol of the United States.
~ Emmet Taylor -
JFK Assassination
The president at this point in time, John F. Kennedy was assassinated. -
Freedom Summer Begins
Freedom Summer is an event in which college students from all over went to Mississippi in order to get African Americans registered to vote.
~ Michael Herlihy -
Vietnam War
The day the U.S. announced to its people that it was offically a war against Vietnam.
~ Michael Herlihy -
Freedom Summer Ends
Freedom Summer is an event in which college students from all over went to Mississippi in order to get African Americans registered to vote.
~ Michael Herlihy -
Free Speech Movement
The movement for equal rights where many freedom riots broke out.
~ Kenny Klein
~ Sarah Weinstock -
Black Panthers
An African American civil rights group whose headquarters were origninated in Oakland. They quickly became a violent protesting group.
~ Emmet Taylor -
March on the Pentagon
This march against the pentagon was one of the biggest marches where people burned their draft cards and protested in antiwar efforts.
~ MIchael Heirlihy
~ Sarah Weinstock -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination
The most important civil rights activist was assassinated devestating the nation -
Robert Kennedy Assassination
The top canidate for the 1968 presidential campaign got shot becasue of his beliefs in politics after winning the democratic primary. -
Democratic National Convention
This was an effort to protest against equal rights, ending in major riots.
~ Michael Herlihy
~ Brian Herlihy
~ Kenny Klein -
Woodstock
The biggest music festival of this era, estimated at 400,000 in attendance. It quickly ran out of food and water because they were only expecting 40,000.
~ Katie Herlihy
~ MIchael Herlihy
~ Brian Herlihy -
The Draft
The military called for a draft where men over 18 could be forced to go in the military.
~ Michael Herlily
