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Susan Brownell Anthony
Susan anthony was an American social reformer who played a role in the women's suffrage movement.Anthony traveled extensively in support of women's suffrage, giving as many as 75 to 100 speeches per year. -
Joseph Mccarthy
United States politician who accused many citizens of being Communists . An American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. -
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The Korean War
the Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel.The Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel -
Vietnam War
A Cold War conflict pitting the U.S. and the remnants of the French colonial government in South Vietnam. Starting in 1954 and ending in 1975, between South Vietnam (later aided by the U.S., South Korea, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand, and New Zealand) and the Vietcong and North Vietnam. -
Cold War
World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union fought together as allies against the Axis powers.The Cold War was the geopolitical, ideological, and economic struggle between two world superpowers, the USA and the USSR, -
The Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.The students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. -
Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
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. -
Civil Rights movement
The national effort made by black people and their supporters in the 1950s and 1960s to eliminate segregation and gain equal rights.Many african american wanted to be treated right. -
The Space Race
a 20th-century (1955–1972) competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US),It had its origins in the missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations that occurred following World War II. -
Emmett Till’s murder
fourteen-year-old Chicagoan Emmett Till visited relatives in Mississippi. At Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market, a store owned by a white couple, Roy and Carolyn Bryant, Till is said to have whistled at Mrs. Bryant. -
Rosa Parks
An African-American Civil Rights activist, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver order to give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger. -
war protest
June 15. Tom Hayden writes the Port Huron Statement for the anti-communist Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The statement was a manifesto of the organization and focused on race and alienation.[2] -
George Wallace, Governor of Alabama
George Corley Wallace, Jr. was an American politician and the 45th Governor of Alabama.
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War Protest
May. Anti-Vietnam war protests in England and Australia
September 21. War Resisters League organizes first U.S. protest against Vietnam War and "anti-Buddhist terrorism" by the U.S.-supported South Vietnamese regime with a demonstration at the U.S. Mission to the UN in New York City. -
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. He rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. -
Malcolm X
Malcolm X articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the 1950s and '60s.Malcolm X was also Assassinated. -
Lucy Burns
An American suffragist and women's rights advocate.
She was a passionate activist in the United States. -
Hippie Culture
Hippies use music to express themselves emotionally, spiritually, and politically. A subculture that was originally a youth movement that emerged in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. -
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist. Who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968. -
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
Shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was shot three times by Palestinian immigrant.Robert Kennedy died of his wounds 26 hours later. -
Richard Nixon/ Watergate Scandal
The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s.The Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement ... -
Lyndon B. Johnson
The 36th President of the United States.
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John Lennon’s Murder
Former Beatle John Lennon, the 40-year-old lead singer of the most popular rock group in history.Legendary Beatles singer shot dead by Mark David Chapman. -
HIV/AIDS in the United States
The history of HIV and AIDS in the USA began in 1981.
The United States of America became the first country to officially recognise a strange new illness -
Guess Who?
Although there has been varsious versions with differing faces and mens/womens counts Guess Who?The few games that has remain unchanged. -
'Little Person' dolls,
Xavier Roberts invented 'Little Person' dolls, the first Cabbage Patch Kids
Roberts' ideas began mass-marketing the dolls in 1983, under the new name of 'Cabbage Patch Kids.' -
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Corporation formally announced Microsoft Windows, a next-generation operating system.
It would provide a graphical user interface (GUI) and a multitasking environment for IBM computers. -
Ella Josephine Baker
an African-American civil rights and human rights activist. She was a largely behind-the-scenes organizer whose career spanned over five decades. -
James Arthur Baldwin
An American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic.
His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies. -
Digital cellular phones
Used to describe a newer class of wireless communications services recently authorized by the FCC.
Use a different radio frequency, the cellular phones and generally use all-digital technology for transmission and reception.
