amendments. As President Lyndon B. Johnson stated after signing the voting rights act on August 6th‚ that day was “a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that has ever been won on any battlefield”. Not only did this act abolish literacy tests‚ it abolished the last barrier for voting other than age. As Johnson also stated‚ “to seize the meaning of this day‚ we must recall darker times‚” referring to the years of slave owning‚ when African Americans
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The Vietnam War greatly changed America forever. It was the longest war fought in America’s history‚ lasting from 1955 to 1973. The Vietnam War tarnished America’s self image by becoming the first time in history the United States failed to accomplish its stated war aims‚ to preserve a separate‚ independent‚ noncommunist government. The war also had great effects on the American people. It was the first war ever broadcast on television. The public was able to see what happened on the battlefield
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is very important for the outcome of the successfulness of it: “Johnson endured the vilification of those who sought to portray him as a man of war. But there was nothing he cared about more deeply than achieving a lasting peace in the
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It was the 22nd of November 1963‚ when President Kennedy was travelling through Dallas on a speech presenting tour. The president had previously been warned that the people of Dallas disliked him‚ and that the trip would be dangerous. Despite these warning‚ JFK saw it as a way to gain popularity and enhance his standing in the Southern states. As President Kennedy disembarked Air Force One‚ he was escorted into an open limousine 2nd from the front of the Motorcade‚ where he was to be driven
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John F. Kennedy was assassinated. With his death‚ almost all hope of ending the war was lost. Kennedy was considering withdrawing our troops from Vietnam because he believed it was a lost effort of trying to win. After his death acting V.P Lyndon B Johnson was sworn in he later signed a bill that catapulted the United States deep into the war. When this bill was signed in several companies who were near bankruptcy received billion dollar contracts for war preparation. Several of these companies
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Barbara Charline Jordan 1936-1996 By: Essence Rogers Mr. White US History Barbara Charline Jordan was the first African American congresswoman from the South. Born February 21‚ 1936 in Houston‚ Texas was the youngest of three daughters in a close knit family. She attended Roberson Elementary School and Phyllis Wheatley High School. Her father‚ Benjamin Jordan was a Baptist minister who taught her a love of family‚ faith‚ music and language. Her mother‚ Arlyne Jordan was a domestic worker
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Voices from Vietnam Voices from Vietnam‚ a book by Barry Denenberg to some it can be comforting‚ some gruesome‚ and to some informative. This book is not just a group of facts with the main events of the war‚ it talks with many different people that had very important jobs during the war. To me this book was very informative because I knew very little about the war. A few well known people have writings in this book such as President Dwight D. Eisenhower. It is very interesting to see the very
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The Vietnam War War affects millions of people in different ways everyday. The United States government involvement in the Vietnam War only led to millions more deaths of american and vietamese people. The United States started sending military around 1957 to assist the south vietemese army known as the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. By the time the United States government withdrew there men they left vietnamin an even worse condition then when they arrived. The United States government should
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comprehensive civil rights bill won the endorsement of House and Senate Republican leaders‚ but it was not passed; however‚ before 22 November 1963‚ when President Kennedy was assassinated. The bill was left in the hands of Lyndon B. Johnson. Before becoming vice president‚ Johnson had served more than two decades in Congress as a congressman and senator from Texas. He use his connections with southern white congressional leaders‚ and with the assistance of Robert Kennedy’s Justice Department and the
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On 26 July 1950‚ President Harry Truman approved a multi-million dollar military assistance package designed to help the French defeat a strong communist movement in French Indochina. The package included $15 million worth of military equipment and a small number of American military advisors assigned to supervise the flow of tanks‚ plans‚ artillery‚ and other equipment.1 By 1954‚ the United States government had provided 80% of the war supplies used by the French in Indochina which equated to about
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