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Question:I'm doing a research paper on Vietnam's effect on the civil rights movement I found a bunch of good information and am begining to sort it but usually i like to have 4 good subtopics to branch of so i have a good outline

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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I'm doing a research paper on Vietnam's effect on the civil rights movement I found a bunch of good information and am begining to sort it but usually i like to have 4 good subtopics to branch of so i have a good outline

any help

Civil Rights and peace movements on college campuses
Anti-draft efforts and civil rights
FBI spying and infiltration--which did Hoover see as more dangerous, peace or civil rights?
Differing types of repression, how the federal government viewed the peace movement and the civil rights movement

During the Vietnam war conflict was the closest we came to civil war in America and a renewed revolution! Remember Kent State and the four shot dead during a anti war rally and how the Constitution and bill of rights was totally walked on by the government! The fact that the government was doing cover-ups on about every aspect of the war is why the government lost the right to enforce many of the laws it had to hold control on the populace and it had violated the constitution and the bill of rights! Collen Powell also did a cover-up of a massacre in Vietnam and this was one of many the government did to cover their back sides!

MLK's 1967 decision to oppose the LBJ administration escalation of the Vietnam involvement and speeches/sermons against the high war spending levels drove a wedge between him and the Chief Executive who had accomplished so much in Civil & Voting Rights legislation in 1964.

Here's some of the WIKIPEDIA discussion of "BEYOND VIETNAM" as a point of divergence from support of LBJ's war focus:
Starting in 1965, King began to express doubts about the United States' role in the Vietnam War. In an April 4, 1967 appearance at the New York City Riverside Church — exactly one year before his death — King delivered Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence. In the speech he spoke strongly against the U.S.'s role in the war, insisting that the U.S. was in Vietnam "to occupy it as an American colony" and calling the U.S. government "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today." But he also argued that the country needed larger and broader moral changes:

A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say: "This is not just."

I believe that these three links will help.
http://www.americansc.org.uk/Online/Viet...
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibi...
http://www.vietnamwar.com
U .S. ARMY(RETIRED)NCO 1958-1979
Vietnam Veteran - 1967-1968-1971