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☆☆☆☆☆The Bus Boycott was inspired by Rosa Parks, when on 1 December 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, she was arrested for refusing to give her seat to a white man because she was tired, and her feet hurt.
It began on Monday 5 December 1955, and ended on December 20, 1956, 381 days, or nearly 13 months, later.
It was started by the Montgomery Improvement Association (M.I.A) which Martin Luther King Jr. was president of at the time. It was Martin Luther King's first Black Rights job.
The job of a defense lawyer (in a criminal case) is simply to represent the person being accused in court.
He didn't order it, it was erected by the East German Government (known as the German Democratic Republic, or GDR) in 1961 to prevent mass defections and migrations from East Berlin to the West.
It had the approval of the USSR, but Moscow didn't actively order it's construction- at least, not as far as we know (Kruschev may have secretly put pressure on the East German Government to build it).
The reason given by the East Germans was that it was to protect 'fascist elements' from undermining the Communist state, but this was at best only partly true- the East German Government may well, indeed, have been worried about Western spies and infiltrators crossing over and whipping up an anti-Communist uprising such as happened in Hungary in 1956, but it was also meant to keep potential defectors IN and stop them from getting across to West Berlin.
The wall cut off West Berlin from it's Eastern half and also from surrounding East Germany- it actually consisted of two parts, a Western and an Eastern wall with a corridor of land about 100ft wide between them. This became known as the 'Death Strip' in the West and contained trenches, anti-vehicle traps, and watchtowers at various intervals, with the guards ordered to shoot on sight anybody seen in the strip unless they had official permission to be there.
It also contained a few ruined buildings that were damaged by Allied bombing in WW2 and had never been restored. The wall remained standing until Germany was officially reunified in 1990, when wholescale demolition work of it began. This wasn't completed until two years later, although several sections of the wall remain standing as historic monuments, including three quite long stretches of several hundred feet. Some of the watchtowers and checkpoint buildings also remain, and have been turned into museums or converted to peaceful use.
by helping artists and scholars throughthe national endowment for the arts and humanities
The Fair Deal was a legislative program to strengthen existing New Deal reforms and establish new programs.
Civil Rights
They assumed public office.
it was part of the economic opportunity act
African Americans should use economic and political power to gain equality. -NovaNET
increased military spending (novanet)
it broadened the individual rights of accused criminals
The New Frontier.
armed patrol of black neighborhoods to stop violence
The United States devised the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe after World War II. This was ti prevent the spread of Soviet Communism.
A prohibition against discrimination on the basis of sex
The 24th amendment prohibited poll taxes
He added it to a bill calling for dramatic tax cuts for middle-class Americans.
