Key Events in the Civil Rights Movement and The Vietnam War

Emmett Till was a 14 15 13( 14, 15, 13 )-year-old boy from Chicago. whilst visiting family in South Carolina Memphis Mississippi( South Carolina, Memphis, Mississippi ) in 1956 1957 1953( 1956, 1957, 1953 ), he was believed to have made a pass at a white woman behind the counter at a store resteraunt bank( store, resteraunt, bank ). 4 days later, the woman's husband and his brother brother-in-law cousin( brother, brother-in-law, cousin ) kidnapped Emmett. They Emmett carry a 75-pound fan to a barn and ordered him to take off his clothes. The two men then beat him nearly to death, gouged out his eye, shot him in the head and then threw his body, tied to the cotton-gin fan with barbed wire, into the river. The trial lasted 46 23 67( 46, 23, 67 ) minutes, with the defendants found guilty innocent guilty of manslaughter, not murder( guilty, innocent, guilty of manslaughter, not murder ). Emmett's mother had an open casket funeral to show the press what the men had done to her son

The city of Birmingham, Alabama was targeted by the Civil Rights Movement because the Chief of Police was Bull Conner, a known racist. The protests started on April 3rd February 19th March 10th( April 3rd, February 19th, March 10th ), 1963. To disperse the protestors, Conner used gunfire officers armed with batons high-pressure hoses( gunfire, officers armed with batons, high-pressure hoses ) and high-pressure water hoses. Over 2,000 people were arrested, 250 1,300 1,800( 250, 1,300, 1,800 ) of which were children. Kennedy ordered de-segregation within 2 months 6 months 3 weeks( 2 months, 6 months, 3 weeks ), along with the passing of a Prejudiced Brutality Law Enforcement Civil Rights( Prejudiced Brutality, Law Enforcement, Civil Rights ) Act to force de-segregation.

Vietnam was gradually conquered by the French, who controlled it. Vietnamese rule did not return to the country until Sept. 2, 1945, when Ho Chi Minh proclaimed its independence. From 1946 to 1954, the French opposed independence, and Ho Chi Minh led guerilla head-on political( guerilla, head-on, political ) warfare against them in the first Indochina War that ended in the Stalemate French Victory Vietnamese Victory( Stalemate, French Victory, Vietnamese Victory ) at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. An agreement was signed at Rome Geneva Paris( Rome, Geneva, Paris ) on July 21, 1954, providing for a temporary division of the country, between a communist-dominated north and a U.S. French UN( U.S., French, UN )-supported south. Activities of pro-communist rebels in South Vietnam led to heavy U.S. intervention in the mid-1960s and the Second Indochina War, or Vietnam War, which caused great destruction and loss of life.

In what became famous as the “Hard Hat Riot,” about 200 union workers, mostly construction workers janitors bus drivers( construction workers, janitors, bus drivers ), attacked anti-Vietnam War protesters in lower Manhattan, NYC, on this day. Over 45 70 50( 45, 70, 50 ) people were injured, including four police officers.
The original anti-Vietnam War protest, involving about 1,000 Wall Street workers journalists high school and college students( Wall Street workers, journalists, high school and college students ) began at about 7:30 in the morning at the intersection of Broad and Wall Streets. The union workers attacked around noon. Most carried guns American flags pepper spray( guns, American flags, pepper spray ) and carried signs reading “America, Love “It or Leave It,” and other pro-Vietnam War and pro-America slogans.
The anti-war protests were part of the national wave of protests following President Richard Nixon’s announcement that he had ordered the invasion of South Vietnam Cambodia China( South Vietnam, Cambodia, China ), and the shooting and killing of four people by Ohio National Guard officers at Kent State University on May 4, 1970.