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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 ...
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.
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.
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 5 Tagen · Jim Crow Jubilee (1847), sheet music cover illustrated with caricatures of African American musicians and dancers. (more) Jim Crow law, in U.S. history, any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s.
23. Apr. 2024 · Online Sources: Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955) An Act of Courage, The Arrest Records of Rosa Parks An African-American Woman Describes Segregated Buses in Montgomery, Alabama
Vor einem Tag · The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties; commonly abbreviated as the " Fifties " or the " '50s ") (among other variants) was a decade that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959. Throughout the decade, the world continued its recovery from World War II, aided by the post-World War II economic expansion.
