1. 1960s'
... placards that exhibited phrases like "We Want Liberty" and "Segregation is Dead." By late June some kind of public place in over one hundred and fifty different cities across America had been desegregated. John F. Kennedy was never able to gain enough support to pass a civil rights bill during his short ... ." Malcolm X was a former pimp, cocaine addict, and thief. He started a militant, all black group called the Black Panthers. On a bright Sunday in a ballroom in Manhattan in full view of 400 blacks Malcolm was murdered. Three men casually walked down the aisle; and from eight feet ope...
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