Mayras Timeline 2019a
Category: Autre
mise à jour avec succès: 20 avr. 2019
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GI Bill:This bill was created to help veterans of world war ll who have been drastically affected by it.This bill made low intrest mortages available,helped tuition for those who wanted to go to college.Executive order 9981: It abolished discrimination "on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin" in the United States Armed Forces. The executive order eventually led to the end of segregation in the servicesMccarthyism: This was one of the most influential things born during the era of the red scare.This was a form of a corrupt government practice,making people of poltical power go into a court room where they are repeadetly questioned on their political views,accused of disloyalty,and made them incriminate their friends and colleagues,and if they refused to face jail time,or eve lose your job.This was all a campaign to expose suspected communists.National Interstate: This was the first interstate where people could go to to certain places which were further.Defense highway Act: This act was very useful becuase it allowed drivers to transport natural resources to certain destinations such as food,etc.Brown Vs. Board of Education: This had a big impact in life because this marked the turning point of the lives of children that wanted to learn it made an equl oppurtunity to the land of education.Eisen Hower Elected:The 1952 United States presidential election was the 42nd quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 4, 1952. Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower won a landslide victory over Democrat Adlai Stevenson, ending a string of Democratic Party wins that stretched back to 1932.Jfk elected: becomes the youngest man ever to be elected president of the United States, narrowly beating Republican Vice President Richard Nixon.The campaign was hard fought and bitter. For the first time, presidential candidates engaged in televised debatesJFK Asasinated :while riding in a motorcade in Dallas during a campaign visit. Kennedy’s motorcade was turning past the Texas School Book Depository at Dealey Plaza with crowds lining the streets—when shots rang out.The driver of the president’s Lincoln limousine, with its top off, raced to nearby Parkland Memorial Hospital, but after being shot in the neck and head, Kennedy was pronounced dead.Civil rights Act of 1965:signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. ConstitutionJonson's War on Poverty: This was a fight to try to help people who were living in poverty and trying to help them to get the resources they need by fighting for them.SCLC:The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was created on January 10-11, 1957, when sixty black ministers and civil rights leaders met in Atlanta, Georgia in an effort to replicate the successful strategy and tactics of the recently concluded Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was chosen as the first president of this new group dedicated to abolishing legalized segregation and ending the disfranchisement of black southerners in a non-violent manner. Later SCLC would aMontgomery Bus Boycott:was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a seminal event in the civil rights movement.the Monday after Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white personSNCC Freedom Riders:During the Freedom Rides, SNCC members rode buses through the deep southern states where discrimination and segregation were most prominent.MLK " I have a dream" speech: he urged America to "make real the promises of democracy." King synthesized portions of his earlier speeches to capture both the necessity for change and the potential for hope in American society.Cesar Chavez:Cesar Chavez was an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962.Dealnio Table Grape Strike:Filipino American grape workers, members of the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, walked out on strike against Delano-area table and wine grape growers protesting years of poor pay and conditions. The Filipinos asked Cesar Chavez, who led a mostly Latino farm workers union, the National Farm Workers Association, to join their strike.voting Rights act of 1965:signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This would prohibit racial discrimination in voting.UFW:The United Farm Workers of America, or more commonly just United Farm Workers, is a labor union for farmworkers in the United States.
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