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  • Desegregation of Army forces

    Desegregation of Army forces
    President Truman took the first big step in civil rights. He desegregated the army forced by executive. He bypast congress because the southern democrats wouldd not have voted for it. ch14

  • Brown V Board of Education

    Brown V Board of Education
    The NAACP said that schools were not separate and equal. The Warren court ruled in favor of the NAACP, all nine voted for brown. Said that the segregation violates the contitution.People went to schools that were in the area which they lived in.
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  • murder of Emmett Till

    murder of Emmett Till
    1. Emmett Till was visiting his great uncle in Mississippi when he was murdered. He was from Chicago and did not know much about the culture of the south. He talked to a white women and that night her husband and brother took Emmett and murdered him. The Murders did not go to jail.
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    Montgomery Bus boycott

    It started when Rosa parks was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man. The NAACP aramged car pools and walking group for black people for not riding on the buses. The plan worked. When the federal court ruled that the AL. is violating the constitution with segregation on buses
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    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    It started when Rosa parks was arrested for not giving up her seat for a white person. The NAACP organized the bus boycott, to stop segregation on buses. The plan worked. The federal courts ruled in favor of the NAACP by saying it was unconsititutional to segregate buses ch14
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    Little Rock Crisis

    As part of Brown v. Board of Education, 9 black students enrolled in Central high school. The Gov Orval faubus did not want this to happen and riots happen in front of the school. For safety, Ike sent in the national guard to protect the students. ch14
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    1960smush3ehigg$

    Mush america 1960s

  • Kennedy-Nixon Debate

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  • 1960 Election

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    Kennedy Presidency

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    New Frontier

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  • Peace Corps

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  • Alliance for Prgress Proposed

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    Warren Court Rules on the rights of the accused

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  • BAy of Pigs invasion

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    Berlin Crisis

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    Albany Movement

    Is the one failure of the Civil rights movement. The goal was to get the whole city desegregated. Martin Luther King Jr became inovled but left due to the failure of it. It failed because they sent the people to jails around the area so, the jails would never be filled.

  • The OtherAmerica Published

  • John Glenn Orbits the Earth

  • Baker v. Carter

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  • Engel v. Vitale

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    Integrates of Ole Miss

    James Meredith, a veteran wanted to go to Ole Miss. Evers and the NAACP helped him in court to get him into the school. The gov, Ross Barnettwas not happy and aa riots happen in the school. 14
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    Cuban missile Crisis

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  • Equal Pay Act PAssedd

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  • March on washington

    March on washington
    All of the major civil right groups came together for the rally a the Lincoln memorial. This is when/where Martin Luther King Jr said his " I have a dream" speech. The rally was all peaceful and there were no outside forces thatdistrubed it.

  • Kennedy Assassinated

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  • Lbj Sworn in

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  • Warren Commission Formed

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  • Economic opportunity Act PAssed

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    Freedom Riders

    Core decied to test the Boyton v. Virginia by riding down with white and black people to the south. The goal was to get to New Orleans but they did not reach that goal. the bus caught on fireand by the end more that 300 people were killed.14

  • Great Society Proposed

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    Freedom Summer

    1,000 white and black stidents went to the south to help people to registure to vote. They formed the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. But at the Democratic Convention they were only given to seats. which they denined.

  • civil rights act of 1964

    civil rights act of 1964
    LbJ had some trouble passing this bill. In the senate, one person did a filibuster for 24 hrs!!! But, the bill still passed. It took 80 days to pass this bill.14.

  • 1964 election

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  • Death of Malcolm X

    Death of Malcolm X
    Earlier he broke away from the nation of Islam due to jealously of some people. Before he died, he began to accept some white people. Three members of the nation of Islam killed him

  • Medicare and Medicaid Passed

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  • martin Luther King's death

    martin Luther King's death
    Martin Luther King Jr was in Memphis to help with the " Poor People's Campaign". He was outside of his hotel room when he was shot. James Earl Ray was charged with the murder of martin.14