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May 4, 1961 - December 10, 1961
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Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court Decisions.
September 30, 1962
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Riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford where locals, students, and committed segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran attempting to integrate the all-white school.
August 28,1963
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More than 230,000 people including about 75,000 whites converged on the nation's capital. They assembled on the lawn of the Washinton Monument and marched to the Lincoln Memorial. There they listened to speakers demand the immediate passage of the civil rights bill.
January 8, 1964
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The war on poverty is the unofficial name for legislation first introduced by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964. This legislation was proposed by Johnson in response to a national poverty rate of around nineteen percent.
January 16, 1964 - August 19, 1968
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Referring to Vietnam, President Johnson used some version of the phrase "hearts and minds" a total of 28 times.
July 2, 1964
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In July of 1964, Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, and gender. It gave all citizens the right to enter libraries, parks, washrooms, restaurants, theaters, and other public accommodations
August 2, 1964
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In August of 1964, a North Vietnamese patrol boat fired a torpedo at an American destroyer, the USS Maddox, which was patrolling in the Gulf of Tonkin off the North Vietnamese coast. The torpedo missed its target, but the Maddox returned fire and inflicted heavy damage on the patrol boat.
November 3, 1964
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The election was held on Tuesday, November 3, 1964. Democratic United States President Lyndon B. Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee
October 3, 1965
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The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 is a federal law passed by the 89th United States Congress and signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The law abolished the National Origins Formula, which had been the basis of U.S. immigration policy since the 1920s.
May 15, 1966
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Buddhist monks and nuns were once again burning themselves in protest against the South Vietnamese Government.