One of the main contributors to this change in America was a development of a new style of music. ... Because of these new lyrics, the younger generation of people began to form a movement where unity, togetherness, and rebellion against "the man " became of utmost importance. ... Between ten and thirty thousand students and faculty sat on the college campus for thirty six hours straight and gave speeches about how displeased they were with the war. ...

• Word Count: 869
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The New York Times, the first major newspaper to publish an article about the shooting in Dallas, reported in their afternoon paper that President Kennedy was shot and killed while in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. ... He sat in the rear seat on the right hand side. ... While in the car, she sat on his left. ... Kennedy, sat Governor Connally, with Mrs. ...

• Word Count: 2680
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the late 1930's outside Gallup, New Mexico people lucky enough to have any food sat down to their evening meal of a can of beans and loaf of bread. ... A Quaker women recalls an exhausted poor mother sitting in a dirty hovel telling her story of grief and hunger to ER who sat listening intently. ... ER was a member of the New York State of Women Voters, League of Women Voters and Women's Trade Union League. ... As she observed New Deal programs in the South, she was shocked to see blacks being continuously discriminated against. ... Subsequently, African Americans were given a...

• Word Count: 2736
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Later, when he was thirteen years old, he was sent to a Canterbury school, in New Milford Connecticut. ... He also took vigorous action in the cause of equal rights, calling for new civil rights legislation. ... Connally and his wife sat in the front. ... At one point after a misguided move by Marguerite to New York (where she hope her older son John would support herself and Oswald) he was declared a truant and remanded to a home for problem juveniles. ...

• Word Count: 1443
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

On February 1st at 4:30 pm four students from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University sat down at a whites only lunch counter inside a Woolsworth's Department Store in Greensboro, North Carolina and requested to be served. ...

• Word Count: 3205
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The streetlights were on. Yet, it was three in the afternoon. The smog was so thick and black the sunlight cannot get through. Yesterday's newspaper rolls down the street as the wind gently blows, and the white working class tolerates no form of inter-racial mingling. Signs hang in storefronts re...

• Word Count: 3098
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School