How Important Was The Civil Rights Movement In The 60's

The 60’s were known for their rights movements, and for people speaking their mind. During the same time as the Anti-war Movement was going on we also had a huge Civil Rights Movement with a huge leader,Martin Luther King Junior. The Vietnam war was a very dreaded war, this is sadly one of the wars that we have ever officially lost. However it depends at how you look at it, because, yes we did lose many of our soldiers but, Vietnam gained their own independence which was what they were fighting for the whole time.
The Vietnam war started in November of 1955 and everybody was proud to go and fight for their freedom, but as the war escalated so did the disapprovals and protests. People began to see that we were not going to win the war, and
The most significant development of the groups and protests were within the years 1965 and 1969 by attracting member of college campuses, middle class suburbs, labor unions, and government institutions, and it soon gained national prominence. In April of 1969 president Nixon came into office and had planned to withdraw U.S. forces that had entered Vietnam. This alone was the cause of many protests and riots because many of the americans saw this as giving up and surrendering. However many other people saw this as a good thing because some of their loved ones would be able to come home. Nixon soon televised that he was actually sending more troops in instead of taking them out. This caused the protests to increase all across the nation, 15,000-25,000 people gathered for a bombing protest in Washington on April 17, just a few days after this announcement. During this time actors and artists became very popular and very persuasive to the people across the country. Three men by the name of Martin Sheen, Pete Seeger, and Ed Sanders, were all very popular artists and also protesters. These men influenced americans all around the United States, however the one that is different than the others and stands out is Ed Sanders. Ed Sanders protested for the war and his acting/music had always incorporated the support of the Vietnam War. Pete Seeger had said,
Stories of drug trafficking, political assassinations, and indiscriminate bombings led many to believe that military services had lost all accountability so congress began threatening Nixon's administrations with challenges to presidential authority. Nixon had made many enemies throughout the U.S. because after the promises that he had made, he didn’t follow through on most of them. By early February 1968, a Gallup poll showed only 35 percent of the population approved of the handling of the war and 50 percent disapproved. In mid-1971, the publication of the first Pentagon Papers which revealed previously confidential details about the war’s conduct–caused more and more Americans to question the accountability of the U.S. government and military establishments. At Berkeley in October 1965 there was a conference held with the government, and in this meeting we created the extraordinary Vietnam Day. the extraordinary vietnam day was invented today, this is a holiday that almost all americans still cherish to this day. Finally on April 30th, 1975 the long Vietnam War had ended. However this was not very good for all of the Americans that fought in the war, because when they had returned home everybody treated them with disgust because of what they were forced to do in the