1. Civil Disobedience
However, much was negative: student and anti-war protest movements, political assassinations, and ghetto riots excited American people and resulted in lack of respect for authority and the law. The decade began under the shadow of the cold war with the Soviet Union, which was aggravated by the U-2 incident, the Berlin Wall, and the Cuban missile crisis, along with the space race with the USSR. The decade ended under the shadow of the Vietnam war, which deeply divided Americans and their allies and damaged the country's self-confidence and sense of purpose. ... Hippies,...
Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in 1929. Throughout his life, King was known best as a Civil Rights Leader. King was born into a family of Baptist Ministers. King grew up in a time when the opportunities for education and experience were not available to children in poorer urban and rural areas. He was fortunate to have these opportunities. ...
Introduction Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 -1968 on April 4), the famous leader of the American civil rights movement. 1948 graduation. During 1948 to 1951, he continued to study in the US East Coast, Philadelphia. In 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. had an audience with President John F....
