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| 1971 |
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| Lt. William L. Calley was court-martialed for atrocities committed in the Vietnamese village of My Lai. Retaliating for the casualties of their comrades, soldiers in 1968 allegedly killed 350 Vietnamese villagers. | 1 |
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| June |
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| Daniel Ellsberg leaked classified documents (the so-called Pentagon Papers) to the New York Times; the documents detailed numerous instances of governmental wrongdoing in the prosecution of the Vietnam War. The officials tried unsuccessfully to stop the story from running. | 2 |
| The National Women's Political Caucus was formed to promote the election of women to public office. | 3 |
| The Office of Economic Opportunity was dismantled in the wake of conservative reactions against government spending on social welfare programs. | 4 |
| In Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court supported busing to achieve racial balance in the nation's public schools. | 5 |
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