Sadly his life came to an end by a bullet from his assign, James Earl Ray, on April 4, 1968 Important events in the movement involved the many sit-ins, riots, and the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968 passed. ... That same year, James Meridith, a black college student, enters the University of Mississippi as the first black person to enter the college after he was rejected three times because of the color of his skin. ...

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William Buckley charged that he had done nothing for the Republican Party and nothing to develop a Conservative Republican philosophy of government and had, in fact, left the "New Deal- policies of FDR intact. ... Following Goldwater's defeat, William F. ... Moldea writes, "Another screenwriter, Milton Gelman, who as also a former agent, said, If MCA had gotten together with William Morris and said, We're going to pull all our shows off the air, they could have broken the whole goddamn operation to begin with. ...

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TEN MAJOR EVENTS THAT SHAPED THE UNITED STATES Over time instances occurred throughout history that affected the United States, for the good and bad. They affected many people emotionally and physically. The following ten events have affected the nation culturally, politically, economically, ...

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Richard Nixon won the November 1968 presidential election over Hubert Humphrey with only 43.5% of the popular vote (Schulzinger 275). Nixon campaigned with telling the public that he would end the Vietnam War. Nixon blamed President Johnson's actions of adding troops and criticized his decisions of escalating the war in Vietnam. Nixon adopted the technique of Vietnamization, which was a plan to replace American troops with South Vietnamese forces. The South Vietnamese army known as the ARVN, Army of the Republic of Vietnam, was virtually non- existent. ...

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The past century has been one of sensational crimes that have amazed many Americans. Form the Lindbergh baby to the exploits of Al Capone, to serial murderers like Ted Bundy. Crime has become a cultural phenomenon that has captured the interests of academics and the causal reader alike. To look back at the last century we can see an explosion in books on true crime and a growth in the fields of psychology, sociology, and criminology. This growth in book sales as well as academic research has shown that the crime wave of the twentieth century has caught the attention of the average citizen. ...

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