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Malcolm X
In 1950, the FBI opened a file on him after he wrote a letter from prison to President Truman expressing opposition to the Korean War and declaring himself a communist.[43] That year, Little also began signing his name "Malcolm X".[44] He explained in his autobiography that the Muslim's 'X' symbolized the true African family name that he could never know -
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Joseph McCarthy
During a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, Senator Joseph McCarthy (Republican-Wisconsin) claims that he has a list with the names of over 200 members of the Department of State that are "known communists." -
The Korean War
The war broke out on June 25, 1950 when North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel, invading South Korea. North Korean leader Kim Il-sung launched the attack once he had received a promise of support from Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. In January 1950, U.S. -
Malcolm X
. Among other goals, the NOI fought for a state of their own, separate from one inhabited by white people. By the time he was paroled in 1952, Malcolm was a devoted follower with the new surname "X" (He considered "Little" a slave name and chose the "X" to signify his lost tribal name.). -
Marthin Luther King Marries Correta Scott
Martin Maried Coretta Scott and settled in Montgomery,Alabama. -
Marthin Luther King tends his flock
This was when Marthin Luther King became pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery,Alabama.He decide to go into the same occupation as his father and grandfather -
Brown v. Board o Education,
was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation, insofar as it applied to public education. Handed down on May 17, 1954, -
Emmett Till's murder
Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African-American boy who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman. Till was from Chicago, Illinois, visiting his relatives in Money, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta region, when he spoke to 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant -
Rise to Prominence
Marthin Luther King lead the bus boycott for 382 days until the Supreme Court ruled that segregated buses were unconstitutional and also during the boycott,King was arrested and assaulted many times. -
Supreme Court
the supreme court ruled that bus segregation was illegal.This was a victory for the boycott. -
The 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 segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. They then attended after the intervention of President Eisenhower. -
TIME Magazine Cover
Marthin Luther King,Civil Rights,Society,Religion,Most Popular,Race,Blacks. -
Marthin Luther Kings first book publised
Marthins first book,Stride Toward Freedom,was publised.Ws signing his newly publised book at a Harlem bookstore. -
Resigned as pastor
Marthin resigned as pastor of the Dexter Avenue Babtist Church to work on civil rights full tie andvto direct the southern Christian Leadership Conference -
Freedom Ride
The first Freedom Ride through the south took place by Core Congress for Racial Equality. -
When Martin got arrested.
Marthin was arrested and jailed during an unsuccesful protest in Albany,Georgia. -
Marthin Luther King "I Have A Dream Speech"
, in which he calls for an end to racism in the United States. Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington, the speech was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement. -
Assassination of JOhn F. Kennedy
By the fall of 1963, President John F. Kennedy and his political advisers were preparing for the next presidential campaign. Although he had not formally announced his candidacy, -
War Protest
In August 1964, North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked two U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin, and President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered the retaliatory bombing of military targets in North Vietnam -
Nobel Peace Prize
When Marthin Luther King became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize whe he was 35.Marthin also donated all the money to advance the Civil Rights Movement. -
Three Alabama sites compete for civil rights
Marthin led thousands of protesters 50 miles from Selma to Montgomery.Alabama.King was arrested during the march. -
Began A Campaign
king began a campaign to end discrimination in housing employment and schools in chicago. -
Marched In Support
King marched in support of sanitation workers that were on strike in Memphis,Tennesse. -
Marthin Luther King
Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American pastor, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs. -
Great Loss (Leader)
When Marthin was in Memphis,Tennessee to lead a protest march for striking garbage workers when he was assassinated on his motel balcony. -
Assassinated bybJames Earl Ray
Marthin Luthr King was assassinated by James Earl Ray.His funeral was held on April 9th. -
Woodstock
The Woodstock Festival was a three-day concert (which rolled into a fourth day) that involved lots of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll - plus a lot of mud. The Woodstock Music Festival of 1969 has become an icon of the 1960s hippie counterculture. -
Disco MUsic/Culture
Disco is a genre of music that peaked in popularity in the late 1970s, though it has since enjoyed brief resurgences including the present day.[10] The term is derived from discothèque (French for "library of phonograph records", but subsequently used as proper name for nightclubs in Paris[11]). Its initial audiences were club-goers from the African American, gay, Italian American, Latino, and psychedelic communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and early 1970s -
The Space Race
The Space Race was a 20th-century (1955–1972) competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability. The technological superiority required for such supremacy was seen as necessary for national security, and symbolic of ideological superiority. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson (/ˈlɪndən ˈbeɪnz ˈdʒɒnsən/; August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States (1963–1969), a position he assumed after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States (1961–1963). He is one of only four people[1] who served in all four elected federal offices of the United States: Representative, Senator, Vice President, and President.[ -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. -
Cold War
In Afghanistan, the Americans supplied the rebel Afghans after the Soviet Union invaded in 1979 while they never physically involved themselves thus avoiding a direct clash with the Soviet Union. -
Jimmy Cartel/ Iran Hostage Crisis
On November 4, 1979, an angry mob of young Islamic revolutionaries overran the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 Americans hostage. -
Cold War
Cold War : this term is used to describe the relationship between America and the Soviet Union 1945 to 1980. Neither side ever fought the other - the consequences would be too appalling - but they did ‘fight’ for their beliefs using client states who fought for their beliefs on their behalf e.g. South Vietnam was anticommunist and was supplied by America during the war while North Vietnam was pro-Communist and fought the south (and the Americans) using weapons from communist Russia or communist -
Johns Lennons Murder
John Lennon was an English musician who gained worldwide fame as one of the founder members of The Beatles, for his subsequent solo career, and for his political activism and pacifism. He was shot by Mark David Chapman at the entrance to the building where he lived, The Dakota, in New York City on 8 December 1980. Lennon had just returned from Record Plant Studio with his wife, Yoko Ono. -
HIV/ AIDS
In 1981, the first cases of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) were identified among gay men in the United States, acquiring the designation, GRID (Gay-Related
History of AIDS
By the end of 2003, twelve million children in
Sub-Saharan Africa were orphaned by AIDS.Immune Deficiency); however, scientists later found evidence that the disease existed in the world for some years prior. -
Ronald Reagan/Reaganomics
Reaganomics (/reɪɡəˈnɒmɪks/; a portmanteau of Reagan and economics attributed to Paul Harvey)[1] refers to the economic policies promoted by U.S. President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s and still widely practiced. These policies are commonly associated with supply-side economics, referred to as trickle-down economics by political opponents and free market economics by political advocates -
Assassination attempt of Ronald
The attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan occurred on Monday, March 30, 1981, 69 days into his presidency. While leaving a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., President Reagan and three others were shot and wounded by John Hinckley, Jr. -
Holiday established in honor of Martin Luther King
A national holiday was established in honor of Marthin Luther King. -
George Wallace, Governor of Alabama
George Corley Wallace Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998) was an American politician and the 45th governor of Alabama, having served two nonconsecutive terms and two consecutive terms as a Democrat: 1963–1967, 1971–1979 and 1983–1987. Wallace has the third longest gubernatorial tenure in post-Constitutional U.S