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1954 BCE
Brown V. Board of Education
On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down racially segregated schools as unconstitutional in its landmark. The reason why Brown v. Board of Education happen because seventeen southern & border states, along with District of Columbia required their public schools to be racially segregated. Although the court stripped away constitutional sanctions for segregation by race, and made equal opportunity in education the law of the land. -
Bay Of Pig Invasion
On January 1, 1959, a young Cuban nationalist guy named Fidel Castro drove his guerilla army into Havana and overthrew General Fulgencio Batista the nations American backed president.
The Bay Of Pigs happen because the United States gave Cuba’s geographical proximity to the U.S. and brought Cuba into play a new and significant factor in the Cold War. The people that was involved was Dwight D. Eisenhower, and JFK.
