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"November 1967, American troop strength in Vietnam was approaching 500,000 and U.S. casualties had reached 15,058 killed and 109,527 wounded." -Digital History Reading Assignment

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"The anti-war movement began mostly on college campuses, as members of the leftist organization Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) began organizing “teach-ins” to express their opposition to the way in which it was being conducted." -Lecture of the 1960's

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According to History.com, "Anti-war marches and other protests, such as the ones organized by Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), attracted a widening base of support over the next three years, peaking in early 1968 after the successful Tet Offensive by North Vietnamese troops proved that war’s end was nowhere in sight."

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Woodstock was founded by: Michael Lang, John P. Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfeld

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The Woodstock Music & Art Fair informally, the Woodstock Festival or simply Woodstock was a music festival attracting an audience of over 400,000 people, scheduled over three days on a dairy farm in New York -Digital History Reading Assignment

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During the sometimes rainy weekend, 32 acts performed outdoors before an audience of 400,000 people. -Lecture of the 1960's

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Woodstock was scheduled  from August 15–17, 1969, but ran over to August 18 -Digital History Reading Assignment

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Johnson  F. Kennedy  prodded Congress to pass a broad spectrum of civil rights laws, ranging from the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to the 1968 Fair Housing Act barring discrimination in the sale or rental of housing. -Digital History Reading Assignment

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"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." -Dwight D. Eisenhower

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"If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together." -Richard Nixon

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"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future"-John F. Kennedy

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On August 11, 1965, riots formed in Watts, a predominantly black section of Los Angeles, after the arrest of a 21 year old for drunk driving.

Riots occurred only five days after President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act.

The violence lasted 5 days and resulted in 34 deaths, 3,900 arrests, and the destruction of over 744 buildings and 200 businesses in a 20 square mile area.

Rioters smashed windows, hurled bricks, and bottles from rooftops, and stripped store shelves. -Digital History Reading Assignment

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"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal." - Martin Luther King Jr.

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On August 28, 1963, over 200,000 people gathered around the Washington Monument and marched eight-tenths of a mile to the Lincoln Memorial. -Lecture of 1960's

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According to the lecture of 1960's Kennedy's administration filed 28 suits to protect black voting rights vs. the compared to 10 suits filed during the Eisenhower years. On November 1963, that Kennedy took steps to end housing discrimination with a "stroke of a pen" after he had received hundreds of pens from frustrated civil rights leaders.

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According to the Digital History Reading Assignent on May 1961, a group of 13 men and women, both black and white, set out from Washington on two different buses. They were called the "freedom riders"; they wanted to demonstrate that segregation prevailed throughout much of the South despite a federal ban on segregated travel on interstate buses.

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"you can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something , God is not going to put it in your lap" -Fannie Lou Hamer

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"You must never be fearful for what you are doing when it is right" -Rosa Parks

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Rosa parks was an Alabama seamstress who had just gotten off of work and refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus to a while man. -Digital History Reading Assignment