During President Kennedy's Presidency, he had to make many decisions about the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union. ... In 1960, Soviet Premier Khrushchev supplied Cuba with nuclear missiles that would put the eastern United States within range of nuclear missile attack. ... The following day, before the United States could respond to the first note a second note was sent by Khrushchev to try and negotiate terms. ... Johnson tried throughout his presidency to get people back on their feet economically and end the poverty in the United States. ... Two types of...

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• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

Cone's thesis is that at the end of the two men's lives, contrary to public opinion, they had moved closer together in philosophies and were willing to do anything, even die to better the living conditions of black people in the United States. ... Robert F. Kennedy states, "you have to understand this about Martin Luther King. ... Rowan, the director of the United States Information Agency, could not understand why Asian and African countries paid tribute to an "ex dope dealer" and "ex con." ... When Robert F. ...

• Word Count: 2721
• Approx Pages: 11

Since the Civil War, much of the concern over civil rights in the United States has focused on efforts to extend these rights fully to African Americans. ... In 1952 the Supreme Court was approached by four states, Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware, along with the District of Columbia, challenging the segregation in public schools. ... The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) took up the case along with similar cases in the four other states. ... And here, on the sidewalk outside was a gang of white boys come to heckle, a ragtag rabble, slack-jawed, b...

• Word Count: 6511
• Approx Pages: 26
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Robert Kennedy who was then the US Attorney General help meetings with the governor of Mississippi and finally persuaded him to allow Meredith to enroll into the university. ... It was not until the 1970's that it was revealed that Hoover blocked evidence and the case was reopened resulting in the arrest of Robert Chambill in 1977. ...

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

"This response to a published statement by eight fellow clergymen from Alabama (Bishop C. C. J. Carpenter, Bishop Joseph A. Durick, Rabbi Hilton L. Grafman, Bishop Paul Hardin, Bishop Holan B. Harmon, the Reverend George M. Murray, the Reverend Edward V. Ramage and the Reverend Earl Stallings) was c...

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Almost every aspect of this country today, would not be the same if it was not for the African American leaders that stood up in their communities during the mid 1900's and preached words of a United States that was free from oppression against people of color. ... The United States had embraced a "separate but equal" attitude toward black and white education. ... The NAACP immediately spoke out against the murder as injustice that can no longer be tolerated in the United States. ...

• Word Count: 3309
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a preacher and the preeminent leader of a movement that continues to transform America and the world. ...

• Word Count: 3779
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography