... liberation, a controversial and decisive war in Vietnam, the antiwar protest to go along with the war, space exploration and the space race, peace marches, flower power, great TV and film and sexual freedom, and of course the great baby boomers. The sixties also showed Communism coming into the Western hemisphere and thus ... against segregation. President Kennedy helped Dr. Martin Luther King with his fight for civil rights. Many Black leaders had sided with Kennedy in the presidential race because Kennedy claimed to be a strong believer in civil rights. In the beginning President Kenn...

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... had organized over 27,000 "Share Our Wealth" clubs. Roosevelt had to take him seriously, for a Democratic poll revealed Long could attract three to four million voters to an independent presidential ticket. Huey Long did not suffer from excessive modesty. As a high-school dropout who taught himself law and got a law degree in only one year of study, Long was confident ... the Elders of Zion," an anti-Semitic forgery (Tull). Father Coughlin's influence on Depression-era America was enormous. His radio program, "The Golden Hour of the Shrine of the Little Flower" had a weekly audience of ...

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