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Martin Luther King Central High School
549 wordsthroughout the nation. In fact, it was required by law in most southern states. In 1952, the Supreme Court heard a number of school-segregation cases, including Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. It decided unanimously in 1954 that segregation was unconstitutional, overthrowing the 1896 Please v. Ferguson ruling that had set the "separate but equal" the young minister, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The leaders organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which would deprive the bus company of...
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Tear Gas Prentice Hall
1,871 wordsOn April 30 th, President Nixon announced on national television that a massive American-South Vietnamese troop offensive into Cambodia was in progress. "We take these actions, " Nixon said, "not for the purpose of expanding the war into Cambodia, but for the purpose of ending the war in Vietnam, and winning the just peace we all desire. " These were familiar words to a war-weary public. Some felt that this decision was essential for attaining a "just peace" and sustaining America's credibility ...
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Martin Luther King Jr Civil Rights Movement
1,253 wordsMany social changes that were addressed in the 1960 s are still the issues being confronted today. the ' 60 s was a decade of social and political upheaval. In spite of all the turmoil, there were some positive results: the civil rights revolution, John F. Kennedy's bold vision of a new frontier, and the breathtaking advances in space, helped bring about progress and prosperity. However, much was negative: student and anti-war protest movements, political assassinations, and ghetto riots excited...
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Martin Luther King Jr Civil Rights Movement
1,296 wordsMany social changes that were addressed in the 1960 s are still the issues being confronted today. the ' 60 s was a decade of social and political upheaval. in spite of all the turmoil, there were some positive results: the civil rights revolution, john f. Kennedy's bold vision of a new frontier, and the breathtaking advances in space, helped bring about progress and prosperity. however, much was negative: student and anti-war protest movements, political assassinations, and ghetto riots excited...
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Ho Chi Minh Bao Dai
1,359 words1945 Ho Chi Minh and his People's Congress create the National Liberation Committee of Vietnam to form a provisional government following the surrender of Japan to Allied forces and Japan transfers all power to Ho's Vietminh. President Roosevelt dies Making good on his threat to unleash .".. a rain of ruin the like of which has never been seen on earth... , " President Harry Truman authorizes the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan -- one on Hiroshima on August 6, and a second on Nagasaki on A...
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Sort Of Thing Racial Profiling
1,655 wordsIts a little after 9 A. M. , at Ronald Reagan National Airport, and a middle aged man of indeterminate nationality has his hand in my pants. Hes not very far down into them, barely over the belt line, but a little of this sort of thing goes a long way (Goldberg 29). This sort of thing, airline security, has reached a new level resulting from the 9 / 11 tragedy. The quiet solitude stemming from an early morning layover in LaGuardia International Airport is all but interrupted by the feeling of Bi...
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Aspects Of Life Melting Pot
782 wordsDesegregation Between the Late 1050 's and Early 1960 's Both of these pictures are the same painting, yet different feelings are provoked by each. To me the one on the left, the colorful one, is more intriguing. It jumps at you grabbing your attention and drawing your eye in, giving you a warm and lively feeling. The picture to the right seems a bit dull and emotionless, portraying a melancholy feeling. In the art world color is a good thing. It brings other elements to a picture that you can't...
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Martin Luther King Jr Civil Rights Movement
1,043 wordsThe Black Civil Rights movement in the 1950 s and 60 s was a political, legal and social struggle of the black Americans to gain full citizenship rights and to achieve racial equality. The black struggle for Civil Rights was very hard. No group in America has or has had more difficulty assimilating into the American Culture. Segregation was started by white American southerners to separate everything between the blacks and the whites. It was also knows as the Jim Crow system and became common to...
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Operation Desert Storm World War Ii
3,328 wordsThe Army National Guard predates the founding of the nation and a standing military by almost a century and a half and is therefore the oldest component of the United States armed forces. Americas first permanent militia regiments, among the oldest continuing units in history, were organized by the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636. Since that time, the Guard has participated in every U. S. conflict from the Pequot War of 1637 to our current deployments in support of Operation Joint Forge. Todays...
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Twenty Five Years York City Police
2,022 wordsKent State Riot of May 4, 1970 Twenty-five years ago this month, students came out on the Kent State campus and scores of others to protest the bombing of Cambodia a decision of President Nixon's that appeared to expand the Vietnam War. Some rocks were thrown, some windows were broken, and an attempt was made to burn the ROTC building. Governor James Rhodes sent in the National Guard. The units that responded were ill trained and came right from riot duty elsewhere; they hadnt had much sleep. Th...
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