EOCT Final Review

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EOCT Final Review

• By Jessica Beasley

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Tet Offensive

• The Tet offensive was a three-phase military
  campaign between January 30 and September 23 1968
  by the combined forces of the National Front for
  the Liberation of South Vietnam and the Peoples
  Army of Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
• The purpose of this operation was to strike
  military and civilian command and control centers
  through out South Vietnam and to spark the
  uprising of the population that would destroy the
  Saigon government, which would end the war in a
  single blow.

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Martin Luther Kings Assassination

• Martin Luther King was one of the main leaders
  during the Civil Rights movement.
• He was a minister and he lead the Montgomery Bus
  Boycott and also helped found the SCLC.
• King was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis
  TN. where he was to lead a march of sanitation
  workers protesting against low wages and poor
  working conditions . He was shot in the neck as
  he stood on a hotel balcony and died in hospital
  soon afterwards.

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Robert F. Kennedys Assassination

• Robert Kennedy was a United states senator and
  brother of John F. Kennedy.
• His assassination took place a little after
  midnight on June 5, 1968 following the
  celebrations of a successful campaign in the
  Californian elections whilst seeking the
  Democratic nomination for President of the United
  States.
• The perpetrator was a 24-year old Jordanian
  immigrant named Sirhan Sirhan, who assassinated
  Kennedy as a result of Kennedy's stance towards
  Israel.
• Sirhan remains incarcerated to this day for this
  crime.

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1968 Democratic National Convention

• The 1968 Democratic National Convention of the
  Democratic Party was held at the International
  Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois, from August 26
  to August 29, for the purpose of choosing the
  Democratic nominee for the 1968 U.S. presidential
  election.
• 1968 had already been a rough year for the United
  States, with the assassinations of Martin Luther
  King Jr. in April, and Robert F. Kennedy in June.
• The convention achieved notoriety because of
  clashes between protesters and police, and the
  generally chaotic atmosphere of the event.

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference

• The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
  (SCLC) is an American civil rights organization.
• SCLC was closely associated with its first
  president, Martin Luther King, Jr.
• The SCLC had a large role in the American Civil
  Rights Movement.
• The origins of the Southern Christian Leadership
  Conference lie in the Montgomery Bus Boycott that
  began after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing
  to give her seat on a bus to a white man.

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

• The SNCC was one of the principle organizations
  of the American Civil Rights Movement in the
  1960s.
• It emerged in April of 1960 from student meetings
  led by Ella Baker held at Shaw University in
  Raleigh, North Carolina.
• SNCC played a major role in the sit-ins and
  Freedom Rides, a leading role in the 1963 March
  on Washington, Mississippi Freedom Summer, and
  the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party over the
  next couple years.
• Later the SNCC focused on black power, and then
  started protesting the Vietnam War.
• In 1969, SNCC officially changed its name to the
  Student National Coordinating Committee to
  reflect the broadening of its strategies.

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Sit-Ins

• A sit-In is a type of protest where one or
  persons nonviolently occupy an area for protest.
• In a sit-in, protesters usually seat themselves
  and remain seated until they are removed, usually
  by force, or until their requests have been met.
• Sit-ins have been a highly successful form of
  protest because they cause disruption that draws
  attention to the protest.
• A Sit-In is also a form of a nonviolence protest.

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Freedom Rides

• The Freedom Rides were inspired by the 1947
  Journey of Reconciliation, led by civil rights
  activists Bayard Rustin and George Houser.
• Civil Rights activists called Freedom Riders rode
  in interstate buses into the segregated southern
  United States to test the United States Supreme
  Court decision Boynton v. Virginia.
• The first Freedom Ride left Washington D.C. on
  May 4, 1961, and was scheduled to arrive in New
  Orleans on May 17. Riders were arrested for
  trespassing, unlawful assembly, violating state
  and local Jim Crow laws.

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Anti-Vietnam War Movements

• Anti-Vietnam War Movement, political movement
  protesting United States involvement in the
  Vietnam War
• The anti-Vietnam War movement was the most vocal
  and sustained antiwar movement in the nations
  history.
• It began in the early 1960s in response to
  increased U.S. participation in Vietnam.

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Women's movement

• Womens Movements is a series of campaigns on
  issues such as reproductive rights like abortion,
  domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay,
  sexual harassment, and sexual violence.
• Feminists are often proponents of using
  non-sexist language, using "Ms." to refer to both
  married and unmarried women.

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Cite Page

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tet_Offensive
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_J
  r.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_ass
  assination
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Democratic_Natio
  nal_Convention
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Christian_Le
  adership_Conference
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_Nonviolent_Co
  ordinating_Committee
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sit-in
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Riders