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Vietnam veterans descended on the Capitol 50 years ago this week—not to impede democracy but to practice it


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Vietnam veterans descended on the Capitol 50 years ago this week—not to impede democracy but to practice it
Bigger than the Jan. 6 insurrection, the 1971 antiwar mobilization known as Operation Dewey Canyon III altered the course of the war and uplifted the nation.
On Sunday, CBS News’ “60 Minutes” profiled the Oath Keepers,
a white-supremacist veterans’ group founded when President Barack Obama
assumed office. The program traced the group’s history from its 2009
formation to its armed support of Cliven Bundy in 2014 to its open
plotting of sedition in December 2020. Then CBS showed some cell-phone
footage of the 40 members of the group on Jan. 6, 2021, as they breached ....

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Formed 50 years ago, Congressional Black Caucus made presence felt by standing up to Nixon


Formed 50 years ago, Congressional Black Caucus made presence felt by standing up to Nixon
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MAY 25, 1971: Congressional Black Caucus Representatives George W. Collins (D-Ill.), Ronald V. Dellums (D-Calif.), Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.), William L. Clay (D-Mo.), Charles C. Diggs, Jr. (D-Mich.), Augustus F. Hawkins (D-Calif.), Parren J. Mitchell (D-Md.), Walter Fauntroy (D-D.C.), Louis Stokes (D-Ohio), Ralph Metcalfe (D-Ill.) (Photo by Warren K. Leffler/Library of Congress). (Getty Images)
It didn’t take long for this group to make an impact.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Congressional Black Caucus, a nonpartisan group of Black members in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate that provides a voice and highlights issues prominent in the Black community. ....

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