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The Supreme Court orders that schools be desegregated very quickly.
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a fellow white passenger, which lands her in jail.
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Southern Congressmen call for resistance against Supreme Court desegregation ruling.
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Dwight Eisenhower once again wins the presidential election against competitor Stevenson.
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Dwight Eisenhower is inaugurated president for his second term.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1957 ensured that all Americans could properly exercise their right to vote.
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The Little Rock Nine were a group of African American students from Little Rock, Arkansas who famously desegregated the previously all-white school, Central High School.
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Alaska is admitted into the United States as the 49th state.
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Hawaii is admitted into the United States, as the 50th state.
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Four African American college students from Greensboro, North Carolina sat in at a segregated Woolworth diner to protest racial injustices towards them.
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John F. Kennedy slightly wins the presidential election against Richard Nixon.
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an US attempt to overthrow Cuban leader Fidel Castro. The invasion was a failure because the United States did not realize how many Cubans actually supported the regime.
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James Meredith was the first African American to attend the previously-segregated University of Mississippi.
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The decision of this case ruled that reciting the Bible or prayers in unconstitutional.
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On this day, Martin Luther King speaks his famous ¨I Have a Dream¨ speech in Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, which prevented discrimination in jobs, voting, and other services.
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The Vietnam War begins because there was a struggle between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. The United States joined in the war to attempt to contain Communism.
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The 26th Amendment was approved by the Senate. The 26th Amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
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On this date, the Watergate scandal was committed. Four men broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters to ensure that Nixon would win his second presidential election.
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The Paris Peace Accords were Vietnamese peace pacts that ended the Vietnam War.
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Nixon resigns from presidency to avoid the impeachment process, after he is proven guilty in taking his part in the Watergate scandal. He is the only president to ever resign.