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Under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, segregation on the grounds of race, religion or national origin was banned at all places of public accommodation, including courthouses, parks, restaurants, theaters, sports arenas, and hotels. No longer could blacks and other minorities be denied service simply based on the color of their skin.   The Act was signed into law by President Johnson on July 2, 1964, at the White House . Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. said that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was nothing less than a “second emancipation. The Civil Rights Act was later expanded to bring disabled Americans, the elderly and women in collegiate athletics under its umbrella.  

VIETNAM WAR.       Vietnam war is also known as the Resistance War Against America, was a conflict in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, from 1955 to 1975. It was officially fought between North and South Vietnam, divided in the communist side and anti-communist side. It was originated because of the determination of the communist guerrillas (called Vietcong) of South Vietnam about the overthrow of South Vietnam's Government.      The confrontation led to a war between the two countries that soon became an international conflict when the United States and 40 other countries supported South Vietnam, while the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the People's Republic of China supplied ammunition to North Vietnam and the Vietcong.                                                            ...

In a speech from the Oval Office on this day in 1983, President Ronald Reagan called for defending the United States against a first-strake attack by developing a Strategic Defense Initiative system.  It gained the nickname “Star Wars”, after the futuristic Hollywood movie. Reagan’s goal was to mount a near-total defense against a massive sophisticated intercontinental ballistic missile attack. Star Wars called for the building a network of ground-based and space-based systems to shield the country; the space-based portion would have used lasers armed with nuclear warheads to shoot down incoming Soviet missiles.

. The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States during the early 1970s, following a break-in by five men at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. on June 17, 1972, and President Richard Nixon's administration's subsequent attempt to cover up its involvement. After the five burglars were caught and the conspiracy was discovered, Watergate was investigated by the United States Congress. Meanwhile, Nixon's administration resisted its probes, which led to a constitutional crisis. The scandal led to the discovery of multiple abuses of power by members of the Nixon administration, an impeachment process against the president that led to articles of impeachment, and Nixon's resignation. The scandal also resulted in the indictment of 69 people, with trials or pleas resulting in 48 being found guilty, many of whom were top Nixon officials.

Martin Luther King Jr was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement  from 1954 until his death in 1968.  He is best known for advancing  civil rights through  nonviolence  and civil disobedience King led the 1955  Montgomery bus boycott  and in 1957 became the first president of the  Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).  He helped organize the 1963  March on Washington , where he delivered his famous " I Have a Dream " speech. 1968, King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., to be called the  Poor People's Campaign , when he was  assassinated  by  James Earl Ray  on April 4 in  Memphis

DONALD TRUMP Donald John Trump is the 45th and current President of the United States who took office January 20, 2017. Previously, he was a real estate mogul, and a former reality TV star. Trump turned his attention to politics, and in 2015 he announced his candidacy for president of the United States on the Republican ticket. After winning a majority of the primaries and caucuses, Trump became the official Republican candidate for president on July 19, 2016. That November, Trump was elected the 45th President of the United States, after defeating Democratic candidate  Hillary Clinton . Donald Trump was raised Presbyterian by his mother, and he identifies as a mainline Protestant.

BARACK OBAMA Barack Obama was the 44th president of the United States, and the first African American to serve in the office. First elected to the presidency in 2008, he won a second term in 2012. Born in Honolulu in 1961, Barack Obama went on to become President of the Harvard Law Review and a U.S. senator representing Illinois. In 2008, he was elected President of the United States, becoming the first African-American commander-in-chief. He served two terms as the 44 president of the United States.  Obama's advocacy work led him to run for a seat in the Illinois State Senate. He ran as a Democrat and won election in 1996. During his years as a state senator, Obama worked with both Democrats and Republicans to draft legislation on ethics, as well as expand health care services and early childhood education programs for the poor. He also created a state earned-income tax credit for the working poor In 2000, Obama made an unsuccessful Democratic primary run for the...