Show Me Identifications

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In your answer you should briefly (but in complete sentences), tell me what it was (who, what, when, where) and then show me why it is important (why is it important in understanding United States history after World War II).  Here are the “show me identification” below: March on Washington 1963 Double V Campaign Ronald Reagan Kennedy Nixon Debates Sputnik The Cold War The Black Power Movement Malcom X Vietnam War Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) University of California, Berkeley Anti War Movement Shirley Chisolm Angela Davis United Farm Workers Richard Nixon Lyndon Baines Johnson The Great Society Sample “Show Me” Identification, below is a sample show me identification for “role of African Americans in the American Revolution.”  (This is NOT one of your possible identifications but see below to get an idea of what I am looking for.  The American Revolution, although transformative for the future of the United States politically, did not create radical social change.  African Americans, for example, fought during the American Revolution, but did not experience radical change once independence was won.  According to one history, African Americans served in state regiments and fought side-by-side with white soldiers, but African Americans did not gain the equality to have arms like white solders and were possibly only accepted into the army because colonists needed more human power to fight off the technologically advanced British.  While the American Revolution rested on the belief in unalienable rights, or natural civil rights for all, both during the fighting and after independence, this treatment of African American soldiers both before and after show that the war’s cause did not included People of color in the war’s outcome, despite the key role African American soldiers played in winning the war.