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Bobby Seale Bobby seale was the Co Founder of the black panther party and an american civil rights activist. He was born on October 22nd, 1936 in Dallas texas. Bobby seale is still alive. Time period: 1936-2012

Charles Houston Charles Houston was a black lawyer who helped play a role in dismantling the Jim Crow Laws and helped train future supreme court justice. He was born in Washington. Time Period: September 3, 1895 - April 22, 1950.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34Th president of the united states from 1953 until 1961. He was also a five star general in the united states army. During World War II he served as supreme commander of the allied forces in Europe. October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969 Eugene "Bull" Connor July 11, 1897 – March 10, 1973 Eugene "Bull" Connor was the Commissioner of Public Safety for the city of Birmingham, Alabama, during the American Civil Rights Movement. His office gave him responsibility for administrative oversight of the Birmingham Fire Department and the Birmingham Police Department that had their own chiefs. He was born in Selma, Alabama.

Fidel Castro August 13, 1927 (age 84) Fidel Castro is a Cuban revolutionary and politician, having held the position of Prime Minister Of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and then President from 1976 to 2008. He also served as the first Secretary of the communist party in Cuba from the party's foundation in 1961 until 2011. He was born in Biran, Cuba

George Wallace August 25, 1919- September 13, 1998 Born in Clio, Alabama. George Wallace was an american politician and the 45th Governor of Alabama, serving four terms 1963-1967, 1972-1979, and 1983-1987. After four runs for U.S president (three as a democrat and one on the American Independent party ticket), he earned the title of "the most influential loser" in the 20th-century U.S politics, according to some biographers. A 1972 assassination attempt left Wallace paralyzed, and he used a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

Harry S. Truman May 8, 1884- December 26, 1972 (aged 88) Harry Truman was the 33rd president of the united states. H e succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945,  when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his unprecedented fourth term.  During World War I, Truman served in combat in France as an artillery officer in his National Guard unit. After  the war he joined the democratic party political machine of Tom Pendergast in Kansas city Missouri  He was born in Lamar, Missouri.

 Huey Newton (February 17, 1942 – August 22, 1989) Was born in Monroe, Louisiana Huey Newton was an American political and urban activist who, along with Bobby Seale and co-founded the Black Panther Party for self Defense.

James Farmer January 12, 1920- July 9, 1999. James Farmer was a Civil Rights activist and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement. He was the initiator and organizer of the 1961 Freedom Ride, which eventually led to the desegregation of inter-state transportation in the United States. In 1942 Farmer co-founded the committee of Racial Equality, which later became the Congress Of Racial Equality, an organization that sought to bring and end to racial segregation in the united states through nonviolence. He was born in Marshall, Texas.

James Meredith June 25th, 1933 (age 78) James Meredith is an American Civil rights movement figure, writer, and a political adviser. In 1962, he was the first African American student admitted to the segregated university of Mississippi, and event that was a flashpoint in the American Civil rights movement. Motivated by president John F. Kennedy's inaugural address, Meredith decided to exercise his constitutional rights and apply to the University Of Mississippi. He was born is Kosciusko, Mississippi.   Beat Movement The Beat Generation is a group of American post writers who came to exposure in the 1950's, as well as the cultural phenomena that they both documented and inspired. The elements of "Beat" inculeded experimentation with drugs, forms of sexuality, an interest of Eastern religion, and rejection of materialism. <span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; display: block; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;">Time Period: 1950's

<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; display: block; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; display: block; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;">Berlin Wall <span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; display: block; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;">The berlin wall was a wall constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on the August 13, 1961 <span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; display: block; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;">that cut off west berlin from surrounding east germany and from east berlin. The barier included guard <span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; display: block; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;">towers placed along large concrete walls. The Eastern block claimed that the wall was erected to <span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; display: block; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;">protect its population from fascist elements of conspiring to prevent the "will of people" in east germany. <span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; display: block; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;">The impact of the berlin wall was that it seperated families, enabled a soviet occupation of the eastern <span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; display: block; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;">side of he wall, and it interfered with commerce.

<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; display: block; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; display: block; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;">Braceros <span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; display: block; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;">The Bracero Program was a series of laws and diplomatic agreements, made by an August 1942 exchange <span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; display: block; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;">of diplomatic notes between the United States and Mexico, for the importation of temporary contract laborers <span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; display: block; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;">from Mexico to the United States.

Civil Rights Act Of 1964 The Civil Rights Act Of 1964 was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against African Americans and woman, including racial segregation. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public.

Civil Rights Act Of 1968

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