Civil Rights

  • President Truman

    President Truman approves hydrogen bomb construction
  • Korean War

    A war to "liberate" the North from the communists
  • Dwight Eisenhower

    He elected President
  • James Watson and Francis Crick

    DNA Double Helix Discovered
  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    Ending racial segregation in public schools.
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man
  • Martin Luther King Jr.

    Him and many other civil rights leaders stood together to fight against racial discrimination and segregation.
  • "Little Rock Nine"

    Blocked from integrating into Little Rock Central High School
  • Ruby Bridges

    She was escorted into school by four armed federal marshals

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