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Why Sports History Is American History
In the classroom, examples from sports can explain key events in American history and help explore how people in American society have grappled with racial, ethnic, and regional differences in...
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The Impact of Title IX
One of the great achievements of the women’s movement was the enactment of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The law states...
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American troops in Vietnam
The first American combat troops entered South Vietnam.
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Robert Kennedy assassinated
Just a few hours after the close of the California Democratic primary, presidential hopeful Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy died a day later of his wounds.
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Secret bombing of Cambodia
The United States began secretly bombing Cambodia. The Nixon administration did not inform Congress of the attacks for several months.
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Stonewall Riot
A riot broke out as a result of a police raid on a the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village. Members of the gay community clashed with police over the next few days. The protests over mistreatment and oppression sparked a wider movement for gay rights.
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Days of Rage
The Weathermen, a radical faction of Students for a Democratic Society, organized three “Days of Rage” in Chicago. Protestors rioted in the streets, destroying property and clashing with police. Almost three hundred people were arrested.
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Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education
In Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education, the US Supreme Court ordered the integration of racially segregated schools, declaring that the “time for mere ‘deliberate speed’ has run out.”
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Birmingham church bombing
Members of the Ku Klux Klan bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church, an African American church, in Birmingham, Alabama. The bomb was detonated just before a Sunday service, killing four young girls and injuring fourteen other people.