It forced President Eisenhower, who would have preferred to do nothing, to take some action. In 1957 Eisenhower introduced the first Civil Rights Act since 1875. It set up a commission to prosecute anybody who tried to deny American citizens their rights. It attracted world-wide attention and was on television screens across the USA. When Faubus closed all the schools in Arkansas in September 1958, he was forced to reopen them to black and white students by the Supreme Court.
Nikita Khrushchev also attempted to ease relations with the United States; in 1959 he toured the U.S. and met with President Dwight Eisenhower. When a U.S. spy plane piloted by Gary Powers was shot down over Russia in 1960, Khrushchev grew more belligerent, and he grabbed the attention of the world by pounding his shoe on a conference table at the United Nations that fall. Khrushchev, the U2 incident, and the Cold War all became major issues in the 1960 U.S. presidential contest between Vice President Richard Nixon and John Kennedy, which was won by Kennedy. Two years later, Nikita Khrushchev was forced to back down to Kennedy over the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba, in what became known as the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. Further domestic and foreign relations disasters weakened
In 2008, a black man was elected the President of the United States. African Americans have come a long way and made a lot of progress in society. It seems as if the movement is over, yet there are still subtle inequalities all around in education and the workforce. Black people still have the problem of stereotyping and racial profiling. Seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was gunned down and murdered by a neighbor as he walked home from the store in February 2012 because of racial profiling (Martin).
Last but not least Milton Stover Eisenhower born on September 15, 1899, in Abilene Dickinson Country, Kansas. Eisenhower attended Abilene High School and graduated the class of 1909. He when and graduated from West Point college as the class of 1915. A friend urged him to apply to the Naval Academy. Though Eisenhower passed the entrance exam, he was beyond the age of eligibility for admission to the Naval Academy.
Fuad Manuel Asfura Giraldez English 8-3 October 17, 2008 Everyone Bullies Melinda Sordino Last year a boy from the Everest school was kicked out for bullying at school, and was not accepted in some other school. This is why bullying is bad. Melinda, the main character of the novel Speak does not bully, but she is being bullied, and it practically ruins her life. Since the first day of school Melinda has been bullied by her ex-friends and other particular people. Therefore Melinda is still being bullied throughout all the ninth grade.
Most people may not even realize it, but songwriters incorporate world events into the songs we hear every day. Take for example, “The southern rapper Young Jeezy, who recorded The Recession last year…” (RPC 89). He sings about the economy in a lot of his songs because it’s a way that singers/songwriters use their music to reach out to people who do not watch or care to watch the news. It is a way of using entertainment as an informative tool. “Sometimes normal musical imagery crosses a line and becomes, so to speak pathological, as when a certain fragment of music repeats itself incessantly, sometimes maddeningly, for days on end.”(100).
The Russians departed Korea in 1949 followed months later by Americans. The Russians left behind a communist government in the north with a very strong Soviet-equipped army. The Americans handed control to the pro-Western government of Syngman Rhee. On June 24, 1950 the armies of North Korea, who were communist, invaded the pro-Western half of the peninsula. Within days they had occupied much of South Korea.
At the campus of Kent State University on May 4, 1970 protest against the war had erupted. The 300 students that had opposed the war so intensely that they had caused riot like damage in a nearby town only to return to campus to burn down the R.O.T.C. building. The local governor had ordered 750 National Guardsmen to the campus to “Eradicate the problem” also saying that the protesters were the “worst type of people we harbor in America” (Davidson−Gienapp−Heyrman−Lytle−Stoff, 2005, p. 2). After the protestors had refused to disperse after being ordered to do so the guardsmen had fired into the crowd killing four students and wounding nine others.
In 1954 racial segregation in public schools where not to be taken lightly anymore. Oliver brown brought a lawsuit onto the board of education when his daughter was not allowed to attend a local, all white school. The Supreme Court heard arguments of five cases that challenged elementary and secondary school segregation, and in May 1954 issued its landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that stated that racially segregated education was unconstitutional and "inherently unequal." This decision was so significant in the civil rights movement that it had been called the most important moment in black history since the 13th amendment. Following the "Brown vs. board of education" decision an incident known as the "Little Rock Crisis" occurred.
With the help of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,) the African Americans were on their way to end segregation. In 1954, a case titled Brown V. Board of Education worked to end segregation in public schools. The desegregation started in Little Rock, Arkansas. Nine African American students were sent to Little Rock High School to start the integration process. Despite the harsh words and violence from white students, the students deemed “the Little Rock Nine” finished out the school year under federal