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American involvement in the Vietnam War, stretching back to post-World War II support of our French ally in southeast Asia, reached a dramatic peak in 1968. That year, pilots who were trained at...
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The Vietnam War inspired student protests against U.S. actions on many college and university campuses, which often ended in violence between student protestors and campus or local municipal police...
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Other campuses experienced intense debates about the role students should take in the war. The Reserve Office Training Corps, or ROTC, became the focus both for those who supported and those who...
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For a great many ordinary citizens, particularly those old enough to remember the wholehearted civilian support for the Second World War, college protests against the Vietnam War seemed unpatriotic...
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Conservative opposition to the gains of the civil rights and student anti-war protests led to a brief resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina in the 1960s and 1970s. This KKK meeting was held...
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Memorials to Vietnam War veterans, like this one in Greenville, were built after the war was over as part of the healing process that took place across the nation, as civilians and soldiers alike...