HIST 2401 Lecture Notes - New Deal Coalition, Huey P. Newton, Voting Rights Act Of 1965
29 Aug 2014
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10 vietnam and the rebellions of the 1960s. The vietnam war changed the political landscape of america. The civil rights act (1964) outlawed discrimination on racial, ethnic, religious, and gendered grounds and banned any unequal applications of voter registration procedure. Malcom x was assassinated in february 21st, 1965 by nation of islam loyalist. Black power is a term that emerged to break the white the strong hold on white psychology; failed to address the inequalities found in black culture alienated white power from civil rights. The black panther party was created by huey newton and bobby seale. Wilson argued that there needed to be a major restructuring in america to address black poverty. The vietnam war was a vietnamese civil war that began in 1964. It violently divided an already divided american civic life; it contributed to the realignment of politics away from the old new.
