Since the advent of their pioneering activism, which spanned the 1960s, many books have been written to commemorate their successes, but the first one that was published in 1964 by one of their few adult advisers was Howard Zinn's SNCC: The New Abolitionists.
Length of Vietnam War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War According to wikipedia, it was fought for 11 years against France between 1946-1957 and 18 years against the U.S. between 1957-1975. Exact dates are sketchy.
How long exactly did the civil war last? There is no precise dating for either the beginning or the ending of the war. Hostilities are normally reckoned to have started with the Confederates firing on Fort Sumter, ca â¦ using Lincoln to appeal for volunteer troops (April 12th 1861), although there was no formal declaration of war.