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Hitler used propaganda to turn public opinion against them, laws to discriminate against them, use of the Star of David to separate them and deportation to get rid of them.
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"...we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain... Remember Dec. 7th!"
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V-E Day stands for Victory in Europe Day.
It marks a very important event in World War 2 - the end of the War with Germany -
the first atomic bomb was exploded in the New Mexico desert. The explosion was massive and the equivalent to 18,000 tons of TNT. Scientists figured that the temperature at the center of the explosion was three times hotter than at the center of the sun.
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V-J Day stands for Victory in Japan Day.
It marks a very important event in World War 2 - the day Japan surrendered to the Allies after almost six years of war on 15 August 1945. The end of war was marked by two-day holidays in the UK, the USA and Australia. -
James Farmer (1920-1999) was one of the great leaders of the African American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s. He co-founded the Congress of Racial Equality – CORE which became one of the leading civil rights organizations.
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Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up her bus seat so that white passengers could sit in it.
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Elizabeth Eckford and eight other African American teenagers in Little Rock, Arkansas. Little Rock Central High School, like many schools across the country, was segregated. Only white students were allowed to attend. But the Supreme Court had ruled that segregation, or the legal separation of blacks and whites in public facilities, was illegal. And these nine students, who would be known as The Little Rock Nine, would be the first African Americans to attend Little Rock's Central High.
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four Black students from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, David Richmond and Ezell Blair Jr., sat down at the counter of a store and asked to be served. They knew they wouldn't be. Still, they continued to sit and refused to get up until they were forced out when the store closed for the night. The next day, a much larger group of students showed up either to participate or witness the sit-in.
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Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!
But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let
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The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place in Washington, D.C., Attended by about 250,000 people, it was the largest demonstration ever seen in the nation's capital, and one of the first to have television coverage.