US History 2 Final

James Meredith

first African American to attend the university of Mississippi

Ross Barnet

Governor of Mississippi, wanted desegregation of schools

Bull Connor

head of Birmingham Police Department, attacked protesters with dogs and horses

James Hood

Wished to enroll in Alabama State University

Medgar Evers

NAACP Member murdered while returning to his home in Mississippi

Orval Faubus

Former Arkansas Governor, send the Arkansas state police on the Little Rock Nine to keep them from schools

Ruby Bridges

a six year old girl attempting to integrate herself into the schools

James Farmour

organized CORE (more violent, student organization)

Ralph Abernathy

helped MLK create SCLC (southern christian leadership conference)

Emmett Till

young black boy murdered for whistling and a white woman in Mississippi

Thurgood Marshall

head lawyer for the NAACP, eventually first black sc member

Linda Brown

Fought for brown v board of education, wanted to go to a white school nearby rather than a black school twenty blocks away

Chief Justice Earl Warren

left-leaning judge, leading the Warren Court

LBJ

President after JFK’s assassination, emphasizes ‘Great Society”

Jack Ruby

shot Lee Harvey Oswald

Lee Harvey Oswald

shot JFK

Niel Armstrong

first man on the moon

Yuri gagarin

first man in space

Allan Shepard

first American in space

Barry Goldwater

ran against LBJ in 1964

JFK

president following eisenhower

Nikita Khrushchev

former prime minister of the USSR

Fidel Castro

cuban revolutionary, brought the country to communism

Flugencio Batista

former dictator in cuba

nixon

president after lbj

McCarthy

US politician who started a “witch hunt” for communists, socialists, etc., with no evidence behind his claims

James Dean

‘50’s heartthrob

Benjamin Spock

children’s book author

Chuck Barry, Little Richard, Elvis

Rock & Roll Artists