Lyndon Baines Johnson1965
34 die during demonstrations at Watts, a black area of Los Angeles
United States of America · Government / Democratic Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
34 die during demonstrations at Watts, a black area of Los Angeles
A civil rights protest staged at a white-only bowling alley in Orangeburg, South Carolina is broken up by highway patrolmen; 3 college students are killed
Students at Howard University signal a new era of militant student activism on college campuses in the US, students stage rallies, protests and a 5-day sit-in, laying siege to the administration building, shutting down the university
In ongoing campus unrest, Howard University students protesting the Vietnam War, the ROTC program on campus and the draft, confront Gen. Lewis Hershey, then head of the U.S. Selective Service System
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