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Posted on 09/26/2004 10:34:12 PM PDT by SAMWolf
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 are acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated.
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HAVES/HAVE NOTS  Gov. George Wallace blocks the doorway to Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, June 11, 1963. But while the U.S. economy was booming, the good life was not available to all Americans. In many Southern states, laws prevented blacks and whites from traveling together, eating together, or even going to the same school. Black Americans were denied jobs and the right to vote. Civil rights activists held peaceful demonstrations -- but were often beaten and jailed just the same. Gov. George Wallace of Alabama saw the growing civil rights movement as part of a communist conspiracy -- a view shared privately by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Discrimination against blacks -- covered extensively on television -- damaged America's credibility as freedom's champion in the Cold War. THE GREAT SOCIETY Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963. His successor, Lyndon Johnson, had a vision of the Great Society. Central to that vision was a war against poverty and the abolition of racial discrimination. Johnson was able to pass the Civil Rights Act in 1964 -- and later that year won an easy victory against his Republican opponent, Sen. Barry Goldwater, who denounced Johnson's Great Society as creeping socialism.  Lyndon Johnson's swearing-in as President Meanwhile, dissent was flourishing on America's campuses. At the University of California at Berkeley, students borrowed the tactics of the Civil Rights Movement, organizing strikes and sit-ins. SEX/WAR American ideals of political freedom were now being extended into the personal realm. The availability of new birth control such as "The Pill" revolutionized many peoples' views on sexual behavior.  In 1965, Johnson began sending U.S. ground troops to Vietnam. Despite the extension of the military draft, Johnson's efforts in Vietnam enjoyed popular support. COUNTERCULTURE While some Americans went off to war in Vietnam, others were challenging what was termed "the Establishment." They rejected materialism -- not for communism but instead for love, peace, drugs and rock 'n' roll. All over the United States, young men of draft age were turning on, tuning in and dropping out.  A vast majority of America spurned the new counterculture. But protests against the war were growing -- with marches and draft-card burnings. Meanwhile, America's war in Vietnam dragged on. By 1967, 500,000 U.S. soldiers were there. DISCONTENT In America's inner cities, some black activists trained as paramilitaries in what they saw as a civil war against a racist police force. Led by Huey Newton, they called themselves the Black Panthers. By the summer of 1967, discontent boiled over into riots in several major U.S. cities. By March 1968, with a growing war in Vietnam and conflict at home, Johnson declared he would not run for a second term as president.  Martin Luther Kings Assassination 1968 also saw the killings of two prominent Americans. Civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. was shot dead by a white gunman. Several weeks later, Robert Kennedy -- brother of the late president and himself a presidential candidate -- was killed while campaigning in California. CRACKDOWN In August 1968, Democratic Party delegates arrived in Chicago to pick their candidate for the November presidential elections. Along with the delegates came about 100,000 anti-war demonstrators. The protesters gathered in city parks in preparation for a march on the convention hall. But Chicago Mayor Richard Daley had no intention of allowing them to take over the convention . On the day the Democrats were due to nominate their presidential candidate, the demonstrators battled with police.  1968 Democratic convention besieged by protesters The situation inside the convention hall was also combative. Supporters of anti-war candidate Eugene McCarthy were prevented from debating the war. Vice President Hubert Humphrey became the Democratic presidential candidate. With a promise to crack down on lawlessness, his Republican opponent, Richard Nixon, won the November elections by less than 1 percent of the vote. The Cold War, and the war in Vietnam, would continue.
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Good morning Aeronaut. You stay safe up there. :-)
Thank you Mayor. Good morning.
Good morning alfa6.
Hi feather.
Thanks PE.
I never figured those hoses to be so huge. They must be ver heavy and awkward to handle.
Thanks aomagrat. We can't forget the supporting ships of the fleet and the importance of their role.
LOL! Good team effort guys. :-)
Morning E.G.C.
Supposed to hit the 80's today. Fall is already gone. ;-)
Morning Aeronaut.
Nice to see the "Hurrinaut" back. :-)
Morning Mayor.
Good Morning alfa6.
I always wanted to be a denizen. :-)
How ya doing Sam?
Good Morning Feather.
Morning aomagrat.
Only about 2 years of active service. Seems she was specially built for the Iwo Jima and Okinawa operations.
We're a team!
Nice!
While we talking Death From Abovetm, here's an image of part of what I did.
You shaved your head and hauled hoses? ;-)
We try harder.
It leaves out a lot of the detail and doesn't always get everything right, but it at least hits the main events and shows how they were all part of the Cold War.
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