The Cold War and the Long Civil Rights Movement -- African Americans and the Long Cold War Thaw, 1954-1965 -- Vietnam and Civil Rights : The Great Diversion, 1965 -- The Vietnam War and Black Power : The Deepening Divide, 1966 -- Dr. King's Painful Dilemma -- The Second Coming of Martin Luther King Jr., 1966-1968 -- Moderates and the Vietnam War : All the Way with LBJ
Summary
The civil rights and anti--Vietnam War movements were the two greatest protests of twentieth-century America. The dramatic escalation of U.S. involvement in Vietnam in 1965 took precedence over civil rights legislation, which had dominated White House and congressional attention during the first half of the decade. The two issues became intertwined on January 6, 1966, when the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) became the first civil rights organization to formally oppose the war, protesting the injustice of drafting African Americans to fight for the freedom of the South Vietnam
