-
Known simply as Elvis, was an American singer, musician, and actor. He is regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century and is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll". His energized interpretations of songs and sexually provocative performance style, combined with a singularly potent mix of influences across color lines during a transformative era in race relations.
(https://youtu.be/gj0Rz-uP4Mk?list=RDgj0Rz-uP4Mk)
from Wikipedia.org -
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. The campaign lasted for over a year—after Rosa Parks, an African American woman was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person, when a federal ruling, Browder v. Gayle, took effect and declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws that segregated buses were unconstitutional. Wikipedia.org
https://youtu.be/FE6Yvy--5aw -
President Kennedy spent less than three years in the White House. His first year was a disaster, as he himself acknowledged. The Bay of Pigs invasion of Communist Cuba was only the first in a series of failed efforts to undo Fidel Castro’s regime. Yet he was also responsible for some extraordinary accomplishments. The most important, and most famous, was his management of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. He was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963 in Dallas, Texas. from the Atlantic -
Wallace won the governorship of Alabama in 1962 on a platform emphasizing segregation and economic issues. Within his first year in office, he kept his pledge “to stand in the schoolhouse door” by blocking the enrollment of Black students at the University of Alabama (June 1963). Declaring that the federal government was usurping state authority in the field of education, he yielded only in the face of the federalized National Guard.
from Brittania.com -
The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The conflict was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. In March 1965, President Johnson made the decision—with solid support from the American public—to send U.S. combat forces into battle in Vietnam. from History.com
https://youtu.be/Ya_IiGWiTfE -
Brother of President John F. Kennedy and former Attorney General of the United States. Democratic Party candidate for president in 1968. Was assassinated in 1968 before the election. Many historians and scholars predict that he may have won the Presidency had he lived. His death, some argue, opened the door for Republican Party candidate Richard Nixon to win the election. -
-
The Iran-Contra affair was a political scandal that played out between 1985 and 1987, during the second term of President Ronald Reagan. The scandal revolved around a plan by Regan administration officials to secretly and illegally sell arms to Iran, with funds from the sales funneled to the Contra rebels fighting to overthrow Nicaragua’s Cuban-controlled, Marxist Sandinista government. from thoughtco.com
https://youtu.be/iOlVfoBouus