Name: Samantha Stern
Source: "J. F. Kennedy's Assassination." U.S.A Sixties, Grolier Educational, 2001, pp.
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Topic: Who were Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and how did they try to change American Society? What were they trying to accomplish?
Name: Jessica Moskovits
Source: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html http://malcolmx.com/biography/ http://www.biography.com/people/malcolm-x-9396195
Alexander, Leslie and Rucker, Walter, “Encyclopedia of African American History”, ABC-CLIO, 2010
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They had marches and protests to support this
•They wanted to change how people talked about women and not identifying words with gender biases
•Women wanted to have the right to have an education and the same education as men. They also wanted to go to college just like men did
•They fought for having equal pay, equal rights amendment and also addition of sex discrimination to the Civil Rights Act
•Women wanted to have different jobs in their family and households, and not just different jobs in their house but also have regular jobs, like the ones men had
•Women mostly married early then worked at home and taking care of her children for the rest of her …show more content…
How did Americans protest the war? Were their tactics successful?
Name: Ben Raab
Source:
Brown, Gene. THE NATION IN TURMOIL. Blackbirch Graphics, 1993.
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•:Many Americans thought America had no business fighting in Vietnam.
•Started protesting peacefully but became violent and disruptive very soon.
•There were "teach-ins" on college campuses, huge meetings where people would gather together and share how they felt about the war.
•The first marches started in 1965. Chanted: "Stop the bombing, end the war, bring the troops home."
•Many protesters nonviolently protested by chaining themselves to the doors of army recruitment center's, similar to what protesters did during the civil rights movement.
•Many people burned their draft cards, an illegal act. In order to avoid being jailed, young men who refused to serve in the war would move to Canada.
•Famous Chant: "Hey, hey, LBJ(Lyndon B. Johnson) how many kids did you kill today?"
•Some protesters even publicly burned the American flag.
•By 1967, US Representatives and senators began to speak at protests for the first