civil rights movement janasia

2. - parts of the county still struggled to see African Americans as equal citizens
4. - 50 years ago the conflict in Vietnam was raging and Kennedy stunned the nation.
5. - the civil rights movement saw key figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and spearhead the fight for equal rights for African Americans.
7. - authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.
11. - the growing division led to a shocking political development.
12. - Four Puerto Rican nationalists open fire in the United States House of Representatives chamber and wound 5.
14. - overcame the opposition of southern politicians to pass three major laws.
15. the U.S. ruled unanimously that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

1. - this was organized after Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a bus.
3. - organization the first sub four minute mile and the United States testing a hydrogen bomb.
6. - was spurred by decades of racial discrimination and segregation of the 1500s.
8. - African American students staged a peaceful protest at a segregated lunch counter.
9. - the first electric drip brew coffeemaker is patented in..
10. - started in 1954 following the successful defense of brown v. board of education.
13. - the first human orbit of the moon by Apollo 8.
16. - the stonewall and the election of Shirley Chrisholm to Congress were two important civil rights events.