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Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (4 April 1968) - 0 views

  • At 6:05 P.M. on Thursday, 4 April 1968, Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee
  • King had arrived in Tennessee on Wednesday, 3 April to prepare for a march the following Monday on behalf of striking Memphis sanitation workers
  • single shot that caused severe wounds to the lower right side of his face.
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  • doctors pronounced him dead at 7:05 P.M.
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    Martin Luther King Jr. assassination 
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Civil Rights Act of 1964 - 0 views

  • 11 June 1963 speech broadcast live on national television and radio, President John F. Kennedy unveiled plans to pursue a comprehensive civil rights bill in Congress, stating, ‘‘this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free’’
  • King congratulated Kennedy on his speech, calling it ‘‘one of the most eloquent, profound and unequivocal pleas for justice and the freedom of all men ever made by any president’’ (King, 12 June 1963).
  • The bill passed the House of Representatives in mid-February 1964
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  • When the bill finally passed the Senate, King hailed it as one that would ‘‘bring practical relief to the Negro in the South, and will give the Negro in the North a psychological boost that he sorely needs’’ (King, 19 June 1964).
  • On 2 July 1964, Johnson signed the new Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law with King and other civil rights leaders present.
  • created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to address race and sex discrimination in employment and a Community Relations Service to help local communities solve racial disputes; authorized federal intervention to ensure the desegregation of schools, parks, swimming pools, and other public facilities; and restricted the use of literacy tests as a requirement for voter registration.
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    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the United States
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John F. Kennedy assassinated - History.com This Day in History - 11/22/1963 - 0 views

  • John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, is assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible.
  • As their vehicle passed the Texas School Book Depository Building at 12:30 p.m., Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly fired three shots from the sixth floor, fatally wounding President Kennedy and seriously injuring Governor Connally. Kennedy was pronounced dead 30 minutes later at Dallas' Parkland Hospital. He was 46.
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    John F. Kennedy assassination. President Johnson sworn into office. Lee Harvey Oswald charged with the murder.  
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Cuban Missile Crisis: Summary - 0 views

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    The Cuban Missile Crisis. 
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East Germany begins construction of the Berlin Wall - History.com This Day in History -... - 0 views

  • the communist government of East Germany begins building the Berlin Wall to divide East and West Berlin.
  • wall itself came to symbolize the Cold War.
  • Throughout the 1950s and into the early 1960s, thousands of people from East Berlin crossed over into West Berlin to reunite with families and escape communist repression
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  • the government of East Germany, on the night of August 12, 1961, began to seal off all points of entrance into West Berlin from East Berlin by stringing barbed wire and posting sentries.
  • President John F. Kennedy believed that "A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war."
  • sealing off the two sections of Berlin.
  • Commanders of U.S. troops in West Berlin even began to make plans to bulldoze the wall,
  • concrete block wall began, complete with sentry towers and minefields around it.
  • attempt to reassure the West Germans that the United States was not abandoning them, Kennedy traveled to the Berlin Wall in June 1963, and famously declared, "Ich bin ein Berliner!" ("I am a Berliner!").
  • Since the word "Berliner" was commonly referred to as a jelly doughnut throughout most of Germany, Kennedy's improper use of German grammar was also translated as "I am a jelly doughnut."
  • meaning that he stood together with West Berlin in its rivalry with communist East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic was understood by the German people.
  • the Berlin Wall became a physical symbol of the Cold War.
  • During the lifetime of the wall, nearly 80 people were killed trying to escape from East to West Berlin.
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    Building of the Berlin Wall
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First Man on the Moon - The History of How Neil Armstrong Became the First Man on the Moon - 0 views

  • 1969, as part of the Apollo 11 mission, Neil Armstrong
  • placed the United States ahead of the Soviets in the Space Race and gave people around the world the hope of future space exploration.
  • July 20, 1969
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  • President John F. Kennedy gave inspiration and hope to the American people in his speech to Congress on May 25, 1961 in which he stated, "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth."
  • At 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1969, the Saturn V rocket launched Apollo 11 into the sky from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
  • three-day journey to the moon, called the translunar coast.
  • On July 19, at 1:28 p.m. EDT, Apollo 11 entered the moon's orbit.
  • At 4:18 p.m. EDT on July 20, 1969, the landing module landed on the moon's surface in the Sea of Tranquility with only seconds of fuel left.
  • Armstrong reported to the command center in Houston, "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." Houston responded, "Roger, Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again."
  • six-and-a-half hours resting and then preparing themselves for their moon walk.
  • Neil Armstrong was the first person out of the lunar module.
  • set foot on the moon at 10:56 p.m. EDT.
  • "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
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    First moon landing. Neil Armstrong. 
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Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr - 1 views

  • At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was hit by a sniper's bullet.
  • pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m.
  • An escaped convict by the name of James Earl Ray was arrested, but many people, including some of Martin Luther King Jr.'s own family, believe he was innocent.
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    Martin Luther King Jr. assassination
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Super Bowl History - Super Bowl I - 0 views

  • Green Bay Packers 35 Kansas City Chiefs 10
  • Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers (13-2) against Hank Stram's Chiefs (12-2-1) and was played before 61,946 fans in Los Angeles' 100,000-seat Memorial Coliseum. The television audience for this game is estimated to have been approximately 60 million viewers.
  • Max McGee
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  • McGee was later quoted as saying, "I waddled in about 7:30 in the morning and I could barely stand up for the kickoff. On the bench Paul (Hornung) kept needling me, 'What would you do if you had to play?' And I said, 'No way, there's no way I could make it.'" As fate would have it, Dowler did get hurt early in the game and McGee was suddenly thrust into a game he had no business being in.
  • he caught a 37-yard touchdown pass from Bart Starr to cap off an 80-yard drive that gave the Packers an early lead. On the day, McGee caught seven passes for 138 yards and two touchdowns as the Packers went on to win the first Super Bowl, 35-10.
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    First American Super Bowl
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First human heart transplant - History.com This Day in History - 12/3/1967 - 0 views

  • On December 3, 1967, 53-year-old Lewis Washkansky receives the first human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.
  • Washkansky, a South African grocer dying from chronic heart disease, received the transplant from Denise Darvall, a 25-year-old woman who was fatally injured in a car accident. Surgeon Christiaan Barnard, who trained at the University of Cape Town and in the United States, performed the revolutionary medical operation. The technique Barnard employed had been initially developed by a group of American researchers in the 1950s.
  • 18 days later he died from double pneumonia. Despite the setback, Washkansky's new heart had functioned normally until his death.
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    First heart transplant in South Africa preformed by an American, Surgeon Christian Barnard. 
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 - 1 views

  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
  • the Court held that racial segregation purported to be "separate but equal" was constitutional. 
  • The Civil Rights Act was eventually expanded by Congress to strengthen enforcement of these fundamental civil rights.
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  • summer of 1963.
  • The changes strengthened President Kennedy's original proposal in response to the tumultuous summer of 1963,which saw several incidents of racially motivated violence across the South.  The House Judiciary Committee approved the legislation on October 26, 1963, and formally reported it to the full House on November 20, 1963, just two days before President Kennedy was assassinated.  On November 27, 1963, President Lyndon Johnson asserted his commitment to President Kennedy's legislative agenda, particularly civil rights legislation.  The House of Representatives passed a final version of the Civil Rights Act on February 10, 1964.
  • The bill came before the Senate in February 1964. 
  • Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield filed a procedural motion to prevent the Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • The Senate began debate on the proposal on March 30, 1964.
  • Senator Edward Kennedy, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, dedicated his first speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate to the consideration of the Civil Rights Act. 
  • passed on June 19, 1964, by a vote of 73 to 27. 
  • The Civil Rights Act paved the way for future anti-discrimination legislation, including the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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    Information on the Civil Rights Act
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November 22, 1963: Death of the President - John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum - 0 views

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    JFK Death
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http://www.archives.gov/press/exhibits/dream-speech.pdf - 0 views

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    I Have A Dream Speech
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Timeline | Cuban Missile Crisis - 0 views

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    Timeline on the Cuban Missile Crisis. 
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Berlin Wall B+G: awesome , awesome | Glogster EDU - 21st century multimedia tool for ed... - 1 views

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    Creation of the Berlin Wall. Glog. 
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