civil rights events

By caleb1.collins
  • End of WWII

    End of WWII

    the day that japan unconditionally surrender
  • Brown V. Board Of Education

    Brown V. Board Of Education

    desegrated all schools in the United States
  • rosa parks

    rosa parks

    refused to obey bus driver James Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger
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    bus boycott

    intended to oppose the city's policy of racial segregation on its public transit system
  • little rock nine

    little rock nine

    group of African-American students who were enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957
  • sputnik launched

    sputnik launched

    the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite
  • u-2 incident

    u-2 incident

    when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over Soviet Union airspace
  • bay of pigs

    bay of pigs

    when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over Soviet Union airspace
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    cuban missle crisis

    when the world was about to go into a nuclear war and the cuban government was about to launch their nuclear wepons on the United States
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington

    when Martin L. King delivered a his most famous speech I Have A Dream