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The Seventies
Long overshadowed by the tumultuous 1960s and the transformative 1980s, the 1970s has finally been recognized as an era in its own right. And it is more than Watergate, big hair, and...
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The Civil Rights Movement: Major Events and Legacies
From the earliest years of European settlement in North America, whites enslaved and oppressed black people. Although the Civil War finally brought about the abolition...
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George Wallace’s Stand in the Schoolhouse Door
Alabama governor George Wallace, who previously declared, “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever,” attempted to stop the integration of the University of Alabama by physically blocking the entry of two black students. Wallace eventually stood aside after President Kennedy authorized the National Guard to step in.
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Richard Nixon elected president
In the presidential election of 1968, Republican Richard Nixon faced off against Democrat Hubert Humphrey and American Independent Party candidate George Wallace. Humphrey had won the Democratic nomination after the assassination of Robert Kennedy, but Nixon took the national election.
