America’s Involvement in the Vietnam War

America’s Involvement in the Vietnam War (1960s-1973)

Crisis in Levittown (1957 Documentary)

  • Documentary explores the integration of an all-white Levittown in Pennsylvania in 1957, related to the civil rights movement.

  • Highlights white residents' opposition to integration, mixed marriages, and social mixing.

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrJMez9vkrw

The Murder of Emmett Till In Mississippi, 1955

  • Emmett Till, a 14-year-old from Chicago, was murdered in Mississippi in 1955.

  • DVD clip from the documentary, The Murder of Emmett Till (2003).

Vietnam War

  • LBJ increased US military and economic role in Vietnam to fight communist forces of North Vietnam and Viet Cong.

  • LBJ's stated reasons were in his speech, “Peace Without Conquest,” April 7, 1965.

Vietnam Debate and Anti-Vietnam War Movement at Home, mid-1960s

  • Protests against the Vietnam War increased, peaking in 1968.

  • Students held