Essays on Lyndon B. Johnson

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The Civil Rights Act and All the Way The Civil Rights Movement was one of the most arduous and hard-fought social progress movements in American history. Capitalizing on the confluence of aggressive resistance to Jim Crow laws and increased pressure from the American public to foster racial equality, President Lyndon B. Johnson had an extremely difficult time reconciling the deep divisions that existed between progressive whites and blacks and Southern whites who wanted to maintain social restrictions on black people. This conflict is depicted in Robert Schenkkan’s play All the Way in an accurate, dramatic manner, showcasing the ...

According to the historian, Marilyn Young, Americans were involved in the fighting in Vietnam from 1945 to 1990. The Vietnam War became a very contentious issue in the United States (U.S.) and many mark the serious decline in American citizen’s support for the war. The purpose of the war was stated to be – to save South Vietnam from becoming communist. The 1968 Tet Offensive was a surprise attack launched by North Vietnam and the Viet Cong at the end of January during the Vietnam War. A truce had been called between the north and south warring parties because Tet is ...

At the end of January each year many in Vietnam, the USA and other parts of the world, think of 1968 when the Tet Offensive was launched by the North Vietnamese against South Vietnam. Although the North had agreed to a truce they did not honor it. Instead they initiated a surprise attack comprised of approximately 70,000 Communist fighters into Saigon and about ninety nine other South Vietnamese cities. The attacks took place in cities on the coast and inland causing a shift from rural fighting to urban fighting. The consequences were staggering and the cruelty to innocent people caught in ...