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Jackie Robinson enters MLB
Jackie made his debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers as the first African American. -
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Brown V Board of EDU
Supreme Court ruled that "seperate but equal" education for black and white student was unconstituational -
US signs aggrement to end war
paris peace accords ended direct us militay involement -
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French defeated at Dien Bien Phu
vietnam was temporsly divied at parrel. -
Geneva Accord
peace aggrement that divived vietnam into communnist control north vietnam and non communist south vietnam. -
Emmit Till Killed
Was beaten and hit with a rock and gouged his eye out becauuse after reportedly of flirting nwith a white women, -
Rosa Parks Arrested
In Alabama, Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man. She then got kicked off the bus and sent to jail it became an important civil of the modern civli rights movment. -
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Montgormery Bus Boycott
A political and social protext campiagn against the policy of racical segergation on the public transit system of Alabama -
SCLC founded
formed by MLK jr and other leaders to work for civil rights through non vilolent means -
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North Vietnam invades Saigon
north vientmense victory -
Freedom riders
one of the civil rights activitcs who rode busses through the south in the early 1960s so challenge segergation. -
James Mereidth enters OMU
First black stduents edmited to the segeratgated Univsertity of Mississippi his goal to put pressure on the Kennedy addministrationn to enforce civil rights for blacks -
I Have A Dream Speech
Public speech delelivered by MLK Jr in which he calls for the end to racism in the USA -
Civil Right sof 1964
a law that banned discrimination on the basis of race, sex, national orgin in oublic places and most workplaces. -
Golf of Tonkin incident
resulted in the escaltion of the war in vietnam -
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operation rolling thunder
the US aerial bombarded democratic republic of vietnam -
Voting Rights of 1965
law that made it easier for blacks to reisgters to vote by eliminatuing discrimatitory literacy tests. -
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Tet Offensive
massiave supprise attack by the vietcong on south vietnamense towns -
MLK assassinated
He was killed in tennesee by James Earl Ray because a conspiracy involiving the US goverment -
Massarce at My Lai
villiage in vientnam where a lot of people where killed by massacre troops -
LBJ announces that he will not seek re election
LBJ doesnt want to be president again -
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woodstuck
free music festival that attarcted a lot people to a farm in NY -
Penatgon Papers
leaked to press by daniel ellsberg that US goverment had lied about its intentions in vientam war
