Selma to Saigon: The Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War

2016 ◽  
Vol 103 (1) ◽  
pp. 266-267
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
The Vietnam War

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Rob Christensen
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Racial Integration ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The Vietnam War

This chapter provides an overview of North Carolina’s leading political family, the Scotts. It examines the rural progressivism that was a powerful influence in mid-20th century North Carolina, and how that progressivism declined with racial integration, the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement and other high-profile social issues

Nightmare Fury and Public Sacrifice

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Dorrien
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Black Power ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
The Vietnam War ◽  
Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King Jr. was more radical and angry in 1960 than in 1955, more of both in 1965 than in 1960, and more of both in 1968 than ever. The great demonstrations in Birmingham, St. Augustine, and Selma yielded the civil rights bills, but King struggled to adjust to the rise of Black Power and dared to oppose the Vietnam War, burning his alliance with President Johnson. King provided the theology of social justice that the civil rights movement spoke and sang.

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