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The "1968 TRIPLE BLOW":

April 4: MLK assassinated → 100+ cities riot → Fair Housing Act passed in grief
June 5: RFK assassinated → progressive presidential candidate lost
November: Nixon elected → Southern Strategy → backlash begins

Vietnam's civil rights impact — "DHKM":

Disproportionate deaths (25% Black, 11% population)
Hypocrisy exposed (fighting for freedom abroad, racism at home)
King's opposition cost white liberal support (Beyond Vietnam speech, April 1967)
Money diverted ($322,000 per enemy vs $53 per person on poverty)

Civil Rights scorecard — "LAW vs LIFE":

LAW changed: Segregation abolished, voting secured, housing discrimination banned
LIFE didn't change enough: Black income 58% of white, housing still segregated, police brutality, unemployment double

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What was 'white flight'?

The movement of white families from cities to suburbs after desegregation. Left inner cities with declining tax revenue, fewer services, and concentrated poverty. One of the main reasons why legal desegregation did not produce actual integration in housing and schools.

How do historians Taylor Branch and Jacquelyn Dowd Hall disagree about the Civil Rights movement?

Branch: The movement was 'the most important social movement in American history' — achieved a moral revolution, dismantled racial apartheid, produced landmark laws. Hall: The standard narrative (King, South, 1954-68) is too narrow. She calls for a 'long Civil Rights movement' (1930s-present) because the fight against poverty and structural racism continues. Both are right — extraordinary achievements AND unfinished work.

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