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Ku Klux Klan
Christmas Eve bombing of the home of NAACP. -
Malcolm X
After his parole he became a leader of The Nation of Islam. -
Brown v Board of Education
Landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. -
Emmett
A 14-year-old African American teenager was brutally murdered by white men while visiting relatives in Mississippi. -
Vietnam War
Was a Cold War military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. The U.S. government involved in the war as a way to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam as part of their wider strategy of containment. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
He led the Montgomery bus Boycott. -
Rosa Parks takes a stand
Rosa Parks didn't give her seat up to a white man on the bus and she took a stand for herself and the others. They kicked her off the bus. -
Suez Crisis
Was a diplomatic and military confrontation between Egypt on one side, and Britain, France and Israel on the other, with the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Nations playing major roles in forcing Britain, France and Israel to withdraw. -
Sputnik
This was the trigger to the space race. America became concerned about the power the soviets would have from their knowledge obtained about sending large objects into orbit. -
John F Kennedy
Becomes the 35th president.
