Civil Rights Era

By kadoria.harper
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    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Protested segregated seating

  • Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK

    Little Rock Nine enrolled in Little Rock Central High School which had been an all-white school, this was the court case of Brown vs Board

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

    Cuban refugees land in Cuba and attempt to overthrow the communist government of Fidel Castro

  • erlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin

    Completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Gern=many and from East Berlin

  • Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington

    The speech was given during the march on Washington for jobs and freedom,where he called for civil economic rights to end racism in the United States

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

    35th president assassinated in Dallas Texas while riding presidential

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

    Assassinated as he stood on the second-floor balcony outside of his motel room in Memphis

  • First Man on the Moon