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Emmett Till
a young black man was brutaly murdered in Money Mississippi for saying hi to a young whie girl -
Little Rock Crisis
students are beaten by racist whites on school grounds -
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The 1960's
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New Frontier
Kennedy proposes tax cuts to get the nation out of the recession and create NASA. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
the soveits are supplying Cuba with nuclear technology stolen from the United States -
Berlin Crisis
tensions in berlin are rising. the US has an air ldrop of supplies for people -
Integration of Ole Miss
an ex-navy seal was banned from going to ole miss based on his skin color -
Cubn Missile Crisis
an American U2-spy plane captured pictures of nuclear weapons in cuba possitioned at the United States -
Brimingham Alabamna
Bull Connor and his poilice force asulted civil rights activists in Birmingham, setting K-9 dogs and fire hoses on them -
Warren Comission
Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed JFK, with what was called the "magic bullet" -
24th Amendement
poll taxing was prohibited -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
LBJ finally passed the Civil Rights Act giving African Americans rights -
Gulf of Tonkin
Johnson has control over all war activities -
Selma March
activists plan to march to Selma Alabama with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. only to be brutally assulted be Bull Connor's police force -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
blacks now have the right to vote with out any restrictions -
Watts Riots
African American Civil RIghts activists targeted white owned businesses withfire bombs -
Ralph Nader
wrote Unsafe at Any Speed, saying how cars are death traps on wheels -
National Organization for Women
NOW was the largest women's organiztion group founded for women by women -
American Indian Movement
AIM was established by americna indians to fight for their land -
Tet Offensive
the north vietnamese launched surprise attacks on the U.S. troops -
Woodstock
the counter culture and hippies came together for a concert in New York that lasted for 3 days -
Earth Day
created by Gaylord Nelson Senator of Wisconsin to clean up the earth for one day -
War of Powers Act
giving power over all wars back to congress not to the president
