The women’s movement, like the African American civil rights movement, took to the streets in the 1960s to demonstrate for their goals. One of these demonstrations, in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1968, protested that year’s Miss America pageant.
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The Protests: A Veteran opposes the War
As the Vietnam war continued, returning soldiers were among those who protested US military action in Southeast Asia.
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Widening the War: The Gulf of Tonkin Incident
While American troops had been in South Vietnam providing training and security during the early 1960s, it was the 1964 attack by North Vietnam on the USS Maddox which triggered a wider US military involvement.
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