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60's Civil Rights #1
60's & Civil Rights PEOPLE
Question | Answer |
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Neil Armstrong | First man on the moon |
Richard Nixon | Promised law and order and peace with honor |
Malcolm X | Leader of the nation of Islam |
Lee Harvey Oswald Jr. | Accused of killing JFK |
John F. Kennedy | Catholic president who was assassinated and is known for saying, "Ask not what your country can do for you..." |
Yuri Gagarin | First man in space |
Fidel Castro | Leader of Cuba |
Ho Chi Minh | Fought for Vietnamese independence |
Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) | Great Society, increased troops in Vietnamese |
Cesar Chavez | Organized farm workers |
Robert Kennedy | Assassinated while running for president |
Jack Ruby | Killed Lee Harvey Oswald on National TV |
Martin Luther King | "I have a dream" speech |
Rosa Parks | Refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus |
Nikita Krushchev | Leader of USSR after Stalin died |
Joseph McCarthy | Senator who tried to find communists |
James Meredith | First African-American student at University of Mississippi |
Douglas MacArthur | Army commander in Korea |