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Plessy v. Ferguson
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Up From Slavery published
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FDR elected
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Olympics in Berlin
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FDR reelected
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Hitler invades Poland
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WWII ends
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FDR dies, Truman becomes president
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Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Harry Truman abolishes segretaion in Armed Forces
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Miss America Pageant - Blacks allowed
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Dwight D. Eisenhower elected
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Claudette Colvin
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Rosa Parks
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Period: to
Montgomery bus boycott
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Little Rock High School (Arkansas)
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Greensboro sit in
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JFK elected
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Supreme Court decision re: bus terminals
Boynton v. Virginia -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
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Cuban Missle crisis
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Assassination of JFK
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Letters from Birmingham Jail
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MLK Jr. "I have a Dream" speech
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MLK won Nobel Peace Prize
For leading non-violent demonstrations for Civil Rights -
The 24th Amendment
Abolition of poll taxes and literacy tests -
Congress passes the Voting Rights Act
Banned Poll Taxes -
Watts riots
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6 days war - Arab-Ireali
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The Detroit Riot
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Nixon Elected
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MLK Jr. assassinated
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woodstock
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The 26th Amendment
Right to vote lowered to 18 -
Oil crisis
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Nixon withdraws last troops from Vietnam
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Nixon resigns
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Gerald Ford becomes president
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Fall of Saigon
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Jimmy Carter elected
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African-Americans get the priesthood
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Iran hostage crisis
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Ronald Reagan elected
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Reagan assassination attempt
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Reagan appoints Sandra Day Oconner
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George HW Bush elected
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Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait
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Bill Clinton elected
