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Montgomery Bus Boycott
This energized the entire civil rights movement and established the leadership of MLKJ for the MIA president and it crushed segregation on Montgomery's public transportation. -
Emmett Till
Two white men in Mississippi kidnapped and murdered a 14 year-old boy named Emmett Till, visited from Chicago and did not know the "etiquette" of the south so he whistled at a white woman named Carolyn Bryant. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refused to give up here seat. -
In God We Trust
In God We Trust was adopted as the official national motto. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Martin Luther King Junior created this to coordinate civil rights groups across the south and body their efforts organizing. -
The Affluent Society
John Kenneth Galbraith published the Affluent Society which argued the US economic would inevitably lead to economic inequality as private-sector interests. -
A Near-Total Embargo
The US instituted a near-total embargo to economically isolated Cuba. -
James Meredith
James Meredith became the fist African American to enroll at the University of Mississippi, this sparked many riots. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Most Dramatic foreign policy crisis in the history of the US. The Soviet Union deployed nuclear missiles in Cuba and -
March on Washington
The March on Washington called for: civil rights legislation, school integration, and end to discrimination by public and private employers, job training for the unemployed and a raise in the minimum wage. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Considered the be among the most important pieces of civil rights legislation in America history. -
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act
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Nixon vistis China and Soviet Union.
Nixon became the first president to visit communist China and first since Franklin Roosevelt to visit the Soviet Union.