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The Cold War involved tense, hostile negotiations between Soviet Russia and the United States. It never became "hot". In other words, no bullets were fired.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower was president during this time.
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Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat as a way of protesting segregation.
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Martin Luther King Jr. lead the first major boycott in the civil rights movement. The bus boycott occurred in Montgomery, Alabama.
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As part of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union competed to develop better space technology as a way of showcasing their own economic system.
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The Vietnam War was a sort of proxy war for the United States and Russia, as the United States are worried that communism will spread.
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The desegregation of the school at Little Rock, Arkansas. The african-american students were named the Little Rock Nine.
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Greensboro sit-ins were protests against segregation in North Carolina.
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This was one of the most important legal act in favor of civil rights.
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John F. Kennedy is president during this time.
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A period of tense, hostile negotiations between Russia and America when Russia installed nuclear missiles on Cuba.
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Lyndon B. Johnson was president during this period
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The Voting Rights Act took down many of the obstacles for African-Americans to vote.
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Richard Nixon was president during this time.
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Richard Nixon was caught trying to cover up a break-in to the Democratic Party Headquarters.
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Gerald Ford was president during this time.