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☆☆☆☆☆The nuclear arms race began after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan in August of 1945. This would effectively begin the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.
A "hot line" was installed between Moscow and Washington, D.C.
to improve communication
When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus.
they sat in front of the bus and used white restrooms in bus stations
Fannie Lou Hamer was an outspoken civil rights activist and voting rights
advocate. She said her goal was "to register every Negro in Mississippi"
He said that civil rights was a moral issue
Faubus ordered states troopers to prevent African American students from integrating a school.-Novanet
Some organized the "White Citizen's Council."
The Suez Canal crisis
The Nation of Islam is not actually a religious denomination. It was more of a political movement in the late 1960s that advocated the use of violence, if necessary, to enforce Black superiority over whites.
As Malcolm X said, Islam, the religion, that is, advocates equality of all races. When he went for pilgrimage, he witnessed this phenomenon which made him reconsider his role in the anti-integrationist movement of the Nation of Islam.
Basically, The Nation of Islam was a "black power" movement of sorts, whereas Islam is a worldwide religion with rituals and doctrines.
The Taft-Hartley Act outlawed the closed shop
To improve communication
