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Brown v Board of Education
The father of Linda Brown wanted his daughter to go to the closest school to their family but instead was forced to go to a school that was 21 miles away that was an all black school instead of a mixed school. He charged the school for violating her rights to go to school. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks sat in the front row of the colored section in the bus, The bus got super crowded when she and three others were asked to give their seats up for some white folks getting on the bus but Rosa and the others refused to give up their seats. -
Dwight D Eisenhower is re-elected
Dwight Eisenhower was elected for the second time -
Little Rock Nine
The "Little Rock Nine" are nine black children that were the first to go to an all white school after the brown decision to end segregation in schools. Eight out of the Nine children were given rides to school everyday after they were harassed from going to an all white school to a mixed school allowing both to be in the school. One of the nine did not have a telephone and would walk to school everyday with people behind her harassing her. -
John F Kennedy is elected president
John F Kennedy was elected president for his younger looks and his military background -
John F Kennedy is assassinated
Kennedy was assassinated beside his wife in a car, No one knows exactly how it happened leaving many conspiracy theories open for the public to go and run with during the time and still to this day are going. -
Congress passes the Civil Rights Act
After almost 10 years they finally passed the law for everyone to be equal with one another in the US instead of everyone being separate from one another. -
Race Riots occur in the US
After King's death there were multiple riots and while Kennedy was campaigning his presidency and his advisers told him to not visit a black neighborhood but he decided to go anyway and pleading for non violence. -
Richard M. Nixon is elected President
Richard Nixon was elected president against his opponent Hubert Humphrey. -
Martin Luther King Jr
News of King’s assassination prompted major outbreaks of racial violence, resulting in more than 40 deaths nationwide and extensive property damage in over 100 American cities. James Earl Ray, confessed to the crime and was sentenced to a 99-year prison term. During King’s funeral a tape recording was played in which King spoke of how he wanted to be remembered after his death: ‘‘I’d like somebody to mention that day that Martin Luther King Jr. tried to give his life serving
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