What Influenced the Civil Rights Movement

What influenced the Civil Rights Movement?
Vietnam War
Mostly African Americans dying at war
Ironically after Blacks gain political equality
Those who campaigned for civil rights where thus campaigning against war in Vietnam
In a way MLK lined these two issues together
Integrated soldiers who at war were working in…

SNCC became involved in Women's lib in 1965, raising issues of gender injustice within society.
Campaigners were divided, some focused upon political rights, some on the end of social
discrimination within the work place
National Organisation of Women set up
Many extremists enter the Women's fight for gender equality




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