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Vor 2 Tagen · A dramatic shock to Americans' self-confidence and its technological superiority came in 1957, when the Soviets beat the United States into outer space by launching Sputnik, the first earth satellite. The space race began, and by the early 1960s the United States had forged ahead, with President Kennedy promising to land a man on the ...
17. Apr. 2024 · The event that triggered the boycott took place in Montgomery on December 1, 1955, after seamstress Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white passenger on a city bus. Local laws dictated that African American passengers sat at the back of the bus while whites sat in front.
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Vor 4 Tagen · American civil rights movement, mass protest against racial segregation and discrimination in the southern U.S. that came to national prominence during the mid-1950s. Its roots were in the centuries-long efforts of enslaved Africans and their descendants to abolish slavery and resist racial oppression.
2. Mai 2024 · Kalenderübersicht 1955. Im Jahr 1955 endet die Besatzungszeit in Österreich, der DDR und der Bundesrepublik, gleichzeitig werden die beiden deutschen Staaten mit der Gründung des Warschauer Pakts bzw. der Aufnahme in die NATO fest in deren Blöcke eingebunden.
25. Apr. 2024 · Selma to Montgomery March End The modern civil rights movement in Alabama burst into public consciousness with a single act of civil disobedience by Rosa Parks in Montgomery in 1955. It began to fade from the public eye a decade later, following the formation of the original Black Panther Party in Lowndes County.
Vor 6 Tagen · Public segregation was challenged by individual citizens on rare occasions but had minimal impact on civil rights issues, until December 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to be moved to the back of a bus for a white passenger.
Vor 4 Tagen · The Long Sixties: America, 1955-1973. Christopher B. Strain. Hoboken, NJ, Wiley-Blackwell, 2016, ISBN: 9780470673621; 216pp.; Price: £65.00. Reviewer: Ms Louisa Hotson. University of Oxford. Citation: Ms Louisa Hotson, review of The Long Sixties: America, 1955-1973, (review no. 2113) DOI: 10.14296/RiH/2014/2113. Date accessed: 7 May, 2024.
