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| Americans sent troops in the war when North Korea invaded South Korea; China then incades North Korea; no treaty, just a stalemate; American troops still remain |
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| HOuse Committee on Un-American Activities |
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| congressmen who looked for people trying to spread communism to America |
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| Brown v. BOE of Topeka, KS (1954) |
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| beginning of civil rights; overturns Plessy v. Ferguson; involves Linda Brown who lived 3 blocks away from a white school and was made to go to the school 21 blocks away and father sued school board.; outlawed segregation in public schools |
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| lawyer who defended the case for the Brown family case |
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| resisting desegregation laws |
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| moderate for race relations; decide to desegregate Central High School; picked nine students (Little Rock Nine); governor sends National Guard to prevent these students from entering the school |
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| arrested for sitting int the front of the bus on December 1, 1955 |
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| chosen as spokesperson for Montgomery Bus Boycott |
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| federal court in Alabama rules that segregated buses in Montgomery, Alabama are unconstitutional |
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| Sit-in at Woolworth's Lunch COunter, Greensboro,NC Feb. 1960 |
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| 4 men sat at lunch counter without being arrested next day 25 people, next day 100 people, etc. at other establishmenst and gets national recognition |
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