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The Sit in Movement
Students from NC and A+T led a sit-in movement at a segregate lunch counter. -
The Freedom Riders
They rode buses throughout the south to test whether integration orders were being enforced -
JFK Formed the Peach Corps
He created the Peace Corp because he wanted to promote world peace and friendship by fulfilling three goals: to help people of interested countries In meeting their need for trained men and women. To help promote a better understanding of Americans on the part of the people served. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
It was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. -
Birmingham March
Martin Luther King organized a March to integrate Birmingham, Alabama since it was considered the most segregated city in America. Their strategy was to confront segregation through peaceful marches. -
March on Washington
Civil rights leaders led a March on Washington to pressure congress to pass the civil rights bill. Martin Luther King delivered his I Have a Dream speech at this march. -
Freedom Summer
Civil rights leaders responded with new initiatives to bring voting rights. White and black college students too part in a Freedom Summer. This help register African Americans in Mississippi. Freedom Summer volunteers faced resistance. 3 of them were murdered by the KKK and local police. -
March to Selma
Martin Luther King organized a March in Selma, Alabama to protest voting restrictions for African American. Police violence in this event convinced president Johnson to push for new federal voting law. -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Malcolm X was an African American nationalist/religious leaders was an assassination by rival Black Muslims while he addressed his organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King
He was assassinated In Memphis Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. his death sent shock waves throughout the nation.