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Brown V. Board
In 1951, a class action suit was filed against the Board of Education of the City of Topeka, Kansas in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. The plaintiffs were thirteen Topeka parents on behalf of their twenty children -
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Vietnam War
Forrest was enlisted into the army and sent to war during the Vietnam War. Many people didnt want to send the troops to Vietnam because they felt that they were only being sent there to be killed. The war intially started after the cold war when the United States tried to contain communism. -
Little Rock Nine
Little Rock Nine were a group of African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregate. Forrest was at the school when the people were trying to prevent them from going in the school. -
Hippie Movement
The Hippie movement was used to protest against sending troops to Vietnam War. After Forrest leaves the war and Jenny leaves him he finds her at the rally -
Martin Luther King jr
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech before a crowd of 200,000 during the civil rights march on Washington, DC -
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Civil Rights Movement
People were protesting against the way African Americans were being treated. They did violent and peaceful protest by boycotting and doing sit-ins. -
Assassination Of Robert F. Kennedy
After winning the California and South Dakota primary elections for President of the United States, Kennedy was shot as he walked through the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel and died in the Good Samaritan Hospital twenty-six hours later. -
Watergate Scandal
The Watergate Scandal was a break-in of the Democratic Headquaters at the Watergate Office Complex. It turned out that President Nixon knew about the scandal the whole time. Forrest Saw the whoke thing unfold from the Watergate Hotel. -
John Lennon
John Lennon was a singer in the Beattles. He was shot byMark Chapman. In the movie Forrest had an interview with Lennon and Dick Carret. -
Persain Gulf War
Persian Gulf War: U.S. leads international coalition in military operation (code named “Desert Storm”) to drive Iraqis out of Kuwait (Jan. 16–Feb. 28). Iraq accepts terms of UN ceasefire, marking an end of the war (April 6). -
9/11
Two hijacked jetliners ram twin towers of World Trade Center in worst terrorist attack against U.S.; a third hijacked plane flies into the Pentagon, and a fourth crashes in rural Pennsylvania. More than 3,000 people die in the attacks (Sept. 11). Forrest Gump Jr. went to visit the twin towers on a field trip and he kept saying that something didnt feel right and right as he was warning his teachers the planes crashed into the building. -
Election of President Barack Obama
President Obama was elected as the first African American President to be in office. it was the first year that Forrest Gump Jr. could vote and he was excited to vote for Barack Because he believed in what he was campaigning.
