Everett Dirksen

all of America. The bill that John F. Kennedy had written to support the Civil Rights act of 1964 was the marking of the end of discrimination toward race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Signed by Lyndon B. Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Everett Dirksen, and others who were leading the Civil Rights Movement, such as Martin Luther King Jr. (History.com) Kennedy was able to end the segregation of African Americans, and the Jim Crow Laws in…

On December 15, 1930, on a farm that is still around today between Waterloo and Columbia, Illinois, Shirley Kolmer was welcomed into the world. Arthur and Carmelita had just given birth to their fourth child, Shirley. Shirley had 7 siblings, Mary Lou, 4; Lee Roy, who would be 3 in January; and Dorothy; who was almost 15 months old. Almost a year after Shirley was born, the Kolmer’s added a new baby girl into the family, named Elizabeth. Elizabeth would be followed John and James who died…

The first article that was insightful of the time before the Tet Offensive came from a newspaper called The Tuscalossa News in August 5, 1964 which is a day after a big attack on American Navy by the North Vietnamese. This article goes by the title of Bipartisan Support Due to Action of Viet Nam. Before getting into the article itself the term Bipartisan need to be defined to help understand what the article is about. Bipartisan happen when two political parties that usually oppose each other 's…