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Dwight D. Eisenhower (34/REP)
Born October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969.
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Brown v. Board of Education
The day the US supreme court ruled against the segregation of public schools. They meant that "separate educational facilities were inherently unequal." -
Emmett Till
The brutal murder of 14 year old Emmett Till after he was suspected of talking to a 21 year old white girl while visiting relatives in Mississippi. His funeral was held in Chicago where he was raised by his mother. -
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The Mountgomery bus boycott
The boycott which started by Rosa Parks refusal of the seat to a white person. It lasted 1 year and 20 days and ended by a federal ruling and led to a United States Supreme Court decision which led to and end to the segregated busses. -
Little Rock Nine
during the enrollment of 9 African American students on a previously "all-white" Central High School in Arkansas, Governor Eugene Faubus sent the Arkansas National Guard.
Eisenhower then sent the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock to restore order and to protect the students. -
Greensboro sit-ins
A 4 day protest escalating from 4 university students from North Carolina also known as the "A&T Four" to 300 protestors on the 4th day. within 1 week after the start of the sit down other students in other cities around North Carolina to follow their footsteps. -
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John F. Kennedy (35/DEM)
Born May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963.
At 43 years of age, he was the youngest to have been elected to the office. Events during his presidency included the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Space Race, the African-American Civil Rights Movement, and early stages of the Vietnam War. -
Freedom Riders
The first Freedom Bus left D.C.
Continued over the next following years
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I have a Dream
Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous speech calling for an end to racism in United States. -
Birmingham bombing
The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
The church was a meeting place for the civil right leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Fred Shuttlesworth
A racial motivated act of terrorism.4 girls killed. -
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas by Lee H. Oswald -
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Lyndon B. Johnson (36/DEM)
Born August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973.
He is one of only four people who served in all four elected federal offices of the United States: Representative, Senator, Vice President, and President. -
Mississippi Goddam
Song by Nina Simone. Addressing the horrors which happened in the past years. the murder of Medgar Evers in Mississippi; and the bombing of the church in Birmingham, Alabama -
The Ballot or the Bullet
Speech by Malcolm X delivered in Cleveland, Ohio.
He addressed African Americans right to vote amogst others.
If the government would continue to deny them their rights it would be necessary for them to take up arms. -
Mississippi Three
The killing of three Civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi by the Ku Klux Klan, Philadelphia Police Department and a sheriffs office outside Philadelphia. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The prohibiting major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women.
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Malcolm X's Assasination
While addressing the Organization of Afro-American Unity in New York at the Audubon Ballroom Malcolm X was brutally gunned down by three fellow members of Nation of Islam -
Selma to Montgomery marches, a.k.a Bloody Sunday
1st march, 600 protesters walking from Selma to Montgomery protesting the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson and ongoing exclusion from the electoral process.
Attacked by state and local police with billy clubs and tear gas. -
Voting Rights Act
An act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, to give equal rights to all Americans regardless of their skincolor. -
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Richard Milhous Nixon (37/REP)
Born January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994
Probably best known for his role in The Watergate scandal which ended his political career. -
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Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr (38/REP)
Born July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006.
As President, Ford signed the Helsinki Accords, marking a move toward détente in the Cold War. With the conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam nine months into his presidency, U.S. involvement in Vietnam essentially ended. -
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James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr (39/DEM)
Born October 1, 1924
He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office. Before he became President, Carter was a peanut farmer.
The end of his presidential tenure was marked by the 1979–1981 Iran hostage crisis, the 1979 energy crisis, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow -
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Ronald Wilson Reagan (40/REP)
Born February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004.
In his first term he survived an assassination attempt, took a hard line against labor unions, announced a new War on Drugs, and ordered an invasion of Grenada. His second term was primarily marked by foreign matters, such as the ending of the Cold War, the 1986 bombing of Libya, and the revelation of the Iran–Contra affair. Reagan negotiated with Mikhail Gorbachev, culminating in the INF Treaty and the decrease of both countries' nuclear arsenals. -
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George Herbert Walker Bush (41/REP)
Born June 12, 1924.
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Bush postponed college, enlisted in the U.S. Navy on his 18th birthday, and became the youngest aviator in the U.S. Navy at the time.[1][2] He served until the end of the war, then attended Yale University. Graduating in 1948, he moved his family to West Texas and entered the oil business, becoming a millionaire by the age of 40. -
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William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (42/DEM)
Born August 19, 1946.
Clinton presided over the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in American history, wo years later, Clinton became the first Democrat since Franklin D. Roosevelt to be elected president twice. He passed welfare reform and the State Children's Health Insurance Program, providing health coverage for millions of children. -
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George Walker Bush (43/REP)
Born July 6, 1946.
Bush left office in 2009, and was succeeded as president by Barack Obama, who ran on a platform of change from Bush's policies -
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Barack Hussein Obama II (44/DEM)
Born August 4, 1961 and the first African American to hold the office. He later became the first sitting U.S. president to publicly support same-sex marriage.
