Civil Rights

By austin.bruce

  • End of WW2

    The Allie forces won. Soviet Union and United States were look as super powers.

  • Sputnik Launched

    First satalite launched by Soviet Union to orbit the Earth.

  • Rosas Parks Incident

    Refused to give her seat to white person on a bus and was arrested. She was sitting in the very front of black section.
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    Montgomery Bus Bpycott

    Blacks non-violent protest against sections on busing. They refused to ride the city buses.

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Little girl was not allowed to enter a school because of her race.

  • Little Rock Incident

    Bused nine black students to an all white school to break the segregation.

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    When US tried to overthrow Fidel Castro.

  • U-2 Incident

    US spy plane was shot down over Cuba.
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    Cuban Missile Crisis

    Soviets placed missiles in Cuba and threatened to fire them at US.

  • Letter from Birmingham Jail

    Martin Luther King Jr's letter to other baptist preachers about civil rights movements.

  • March on Washington

    When Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech at Lincoln Memorial. Largest civil rights gathering.