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End of WWll
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Brown v. Board of education decision
Segregation of white and Negro children in the public schools.Black children were denied admission to public schools attended by white children under laws requiring or permitting segregation according to the races. The white and black schools approached equality in terms of buildings, curricula, qualifications, and teacher salaries. This case was decided together with Briggs v. Elliott and Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County. -
Rosa Parks Incident
Refuesed to give her seat up to a white person because the bus was full. She was escorted off the bus and sent to jail even though she was sitting in the black section and not doing anything rong. -
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montgomery bus boycott
Was the day when the blacks of Montgomery, Alabama, decided that they would boycott the city buses until they could sit anywhere they wanted, instead of being relegated to the back when a white boarded. -
Little Rock Nine
were a group of African-American students who were enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. -
Sputnic launched
Launch ushered in new political, military, technological, and scientific developments. While the Sputnik launch was a single event, it marked the start of the space age and the U.S.-U.S.S.R space race. -
U - 2 Incident
A spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers was brought down near Svedlovsk, Soviet Union. This event had a lasting negative impact on U.S. - U.S.S.R. relations. -
Bay of pigs invasion
U.S. weapons, landed at the Bahía de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs) on the southern coast of Cuba. Hoping to find support from the local population, they intended to cross the island to Havana. It was evident from the first hours of fighting, however, that the exiles were likely to lose. President Kennedy had the option of using the U.S. Air Force against the Cubans but decided against it. -
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Cuban missile crisis
spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being Built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba. President Kennedy did not want the Soviet Union and Cuba to know that he had discovered the missiles. -
letter from birmingham jail
A letter that King write to his fellow Clergymen. The clergymen themselves were friendly to King’s long-term objectives but disagreed with his short-term tactics. They published a public statement calling the King-led demonstrations “unwise and untimely,” and they opposed King’s civil disobedience “however technically peaceful those actions may be.” -
march on washington
The march is widely credited with helping to pass the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the Voting Rights Act (1965).
