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Committee of civil rights
Was made by Harry Truman to check on the civil rights of the american poeple and to give sugestions to protect the rights. -
Truman
Was born on May 8, 1884 and died on December 26, 1972. was the president of the usa from 1945 to 1953. In 1947 he vetoed two taxes on lower incomes. -
Baseball
Jackie Robinson was the first black to play in the MLB. -
Beatniks
A media steoro type -
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Earl Warren Court
14th Chief Justice of the United States -
Brown v. Board of education of topeka
Case about segerated schools. Court ruled that should be seperate but equal. -
Montgomery
Was a bus boycott. -
Eisenhower
He sign the Civil rights act of 1957 -
eisenhower
American spy plane was reportedly shot down from over Soviet Union airspace. -
Mapp v. Ohio
Case concering of the 4th amendment -
Mississippi
fought between Southern segregationist civilians and federal and state forces beginning the night of September 29, 1962; segregationists were protesting the enrollment of James Meredith, a black US military veteran, at the University of Mississippi -
SNCC
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom -
Feminine Mystique
A book that sparked the beginning of second-wave feminism -
Gideon V. Wainwright
Case base on the 5 and 6 amendments -
Alabama
Birmingham was the first major boycotts/marches/civil disobedance in one city -
24th Amendment
made the poll tax unconstitutional in regard to federal elections -
Escobedo v. Illinois
case holding that criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations under the Sixth Amendment -
Civil Rights Act
outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin -
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Riots
Riots on civil rights -
Assassination
Malcolm X was assassinated -
Civil rights act of 1965
prohibits racial discrimination in voting -
miranda v. arizona
Case on the Fifth Amendment -
NOW
National Organization for Women an American feminist organization was founded -
Thurgood Marshall
first African-American justice -
Assassinations
assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King -
Woodstock
the Woodstock Festiva -
Era
The Equal Rights Amendment guaranted equal rights for women