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Key Figures in the Johnson Era 1963-1968

Identify the figure by the description of how they impacted the Johnson era- either by foreign policy, domestic policy or as key figures in social change etc.
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Leader of the Vietnamese Independence Fight. Ruled in North Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh
General who defeated the French forces and a general in the Vietnam War on the side of North Vietnam.
General Giap
South Vietnamese president approved by US, who was disliked by his own people for a lack of religius tolerance and conservatism. Assassinated 1963.
Ngo Dinh Diem
The first American soldier to die in Vietnam.
Charles Ovnand
US Secretary of Defense under Kennedy and Johnson.
Robert McNamara
US army general during the Vietnam War.
General Westmoreland
The president of South Vietnam after Diem's assassination and during the Vietnam War.
Nguyen Van Thieu
National Security Advisor fro Kennedy and Johnson
McGeorge Bundy
Johnson's VP
Hubert Humphrey
Popular American news presenter
Walter Cronkite
Replaced Westmoreland as leader of US military force in Vietnam.
General Creighton Adams
French head of state
Charles de Gaulle
British Prime Minister
Harold Wilson
Replaced McNamara and encouraged exit from Vietnam.
Clark Clifford
Headed the Peace Corps and helped run areas of the War on Poverty.
Sargent Shriver
One of the volunteers killed on the first day of the Freedom Summer campaign.
James Earl Chney
Civil Rights Activist who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and succeeded to get members to the Democratic Party Convention.
Fannie Lou Hamer
Commissioner for Public Safety in Birmingham, Alabama and strongly opposed Civil Rights
Bull Connor
Peaceful spokesperson of the civil rights movement and key in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, March on Washington and Selma.
Martin Luther King
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Civil Rights Activist who advocated violent protest and believed in black superiority. Was a member of the Nation of Islam but was assassinated in 1965 when he left these beliefs.
Malcolm X
Led the SCLC in their persuits for economic equality in the north- spearheaded 'Operation Breadbasket'.
Jesse Jackson
Democrat Mayor of Chicago and opposed the civil rights movement. Used tactics to ensure that MLK's Chicago campaign would fail.
Richard Daley
Brother of JFK and supported Freedom Riders and other Civil Rights Movements.
Bobby Kennedy
Leader of the Nation of Islam
Louis X
Founded the Nation of Islam
Elijah Muhammed
First Black student to enter the University of Mississipi, also known for his March from Tennessee to Mississippi whic other civil rights organisations continued after he was shot.
James Meredith
Moderate leader of CORE in the 1950s and 60s.
James Farmer
Radical leader of SNCC and spearheaded its direction into Black Power
Stokely Carmichael
Famous Black music artist who began having black representation for artists in media.
Miles Davis
Founded the Black Panthers movement.
Huey Newton
Led the UCBerkley Free Speech Movement
Mario Savio
Founded 'Femenist' movement and wrote the newsletter 'Voices of Women's liberation'
Atkinson
Popular rock artist who sang National Anthem at Woodstock- criticised for anti-war views.
Jimi Hendrix
Radical leader of CORE after James Farmer.
Floyd McKissick
Brutal sheriff of Selma who used similar tactics against civil rights protests as Bull Connor, inciting media attention.
Jim Clark
Founded NOW (National Organisation for Women) and wrote significant book 'The Femenine Mystique'.
Betty Friedan
Illionois senator who wrote a report on the causes of the Watts and other race riots of 1965.
Kerner
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