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