The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorized President Lyndon Johnson to “take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression” by the communist government of North Vietnam.
Many African Americans struggled in the years after the civil war.
Asian Americans faced discrimination no matter if they were Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Mongolian, etc. Discrimination towards immigrants had applied with the American superiority complex that started all the way back from Manifest Destiny. This discrimination was also due to World War II propaganda of Anti-Japanese sentiments which then over casted on Asians in general.
