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Rosa Parks

Civil Rights Timeline

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Chapter 24 and 25 Test Essay Topics ? McCarthyism The economy after WWII China Containment Civil Rights Timeline July 26, 1948 ? President Truman issued Executive Order 9981 to desegregate the military (Fair Deal). May 17, 1954 ? Board vs. Board of Education ruled that segregation of schools was unconstitutional (overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson) August 1955 - Emett Till was kidnapped, mutilated, and murdered after going to visit his parents. His mother displayed his body in order to gain awareness for the terrible events that were occurring. Two years later, the F.B.I. tried to reinvestigate but could not find enough evidence December 1, 1955 ? Rosa Parks was arrested for Civil Disobedience for

Civil Rights Timeline

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Civil Rights Movement Timeline Name: Go to CNN Interactive, The Civil Rights Movement http://www.cnn.com/EVENTS/1997/mlk/links.html Study the events of the Civil Rights movement from 1954 to 1996. Then fill in the blanks below in RED.

1950s Culture FRQ

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FRQ Annie Hawkins p. 1 The 1950s in the US is a time that has been painted over with images of the American dream and disguised in nostalgia as a time when everyone fit the roles that society gave to them- the docile and hardworking housewife, the obedient children, the happy businessman husband, all of them white, content, and living in a carbon copied house with a white picket fence. This, however, was not the case with everyone living in America by a long shot. At the time, there were a great number of groups of people working against the generally accepted values and roles of the times, two of the larger of which were the youth and civil rights activists.

1950s Culture FRQ

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Community organizing
Activism
Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Rosa Parks
Boycott
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Beat Generation
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FRQ Annie Hawkins p. 1 The 1950s in the US is a time that has been painted over with images of the American dream and disguised in nostalgia as a time when everyone fit the roles that society gave to them- the docile and hardworking housewife, the obedient children, the happy businessman husband, all of them white, content, and living in a carbon copied house with a white picket fence. This, however, was not the case with everyone living in America by a long shot. At the time, there were a great number of groups of people working against the generally accepted values and roles of the times, two of the larger of which were the youth and civil rights activists.
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