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    The creators consisted of Nixon and other black ministers. The main thing the MIA did was try and stop the segregation on public busses. In 1955 nixon would be arrested for his part in the boycott along with other civil rights leader such as MLK. After being released from jail he would also be bombarded with atackes. Nixon’s bus boycott opponents to bomb his home on February 1‚ 1956. Fortunately

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    Arrangement in black and white January 3rd 1955 Friday Dear Diary‚ A New Year‚ new beginnings and things will change. But for me the start of 1955 hasn’t been so great so far. Earlier today a close friend of mine threw a dinner party for me which I was so delighted and thrilled when I found out. I thought to myself‚ wow now people don’t segregate and have respect for different races‚ however a woman with pink velvet poppies thwarted me by being offensive to my race. She was scornful and

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    Stringed Instruments‚ and Voice and Opera (“The Juilliard School”). Juilliard is noted for its notorious alumni such as Yo-Yo Ma and John Williams. Yo-Yo Ma was born in 1955 and studied at Juilliard at a very Young age. He has won fifteen Grammys (“Yo-Yo Ma”). John Williams is an American Composer who attended the school in 1955. Williams has written many notable film scores such as Star Wars‚ E.T.‚ Indiana Jones‚ Jaws‚ and Superman. He has won five Academy Awards‚ seventeen Grammys‚ three Golden

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    over again.” Accomplishments & Major Events 1943-Rosa joins NAACP 1943-Forced off of segregated bus for accidentally sitting in seat reserved for whites 1943-Forced off of segregated bus for accidentally sitting in seat reserved for whites 1955(Dec. 1) - Arrested for refusing to relinquish her seat to a white man 1983- Put into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame 2000- Awarded the Alabama Academy Award 2006-Statue of Rosa Parks placed in National Statuary Hall in Washington‚ D.C. Facts

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    of February 1955) is best known as the co-founder & CEO of Apple Computer and somewhat less so for his leadership of Pixar which is a computer animation studio. On the other hand‚ Bill Gates (born in Seattle‚ Washington on the 28th of October 1955) is known for the creation of the Windows operating system‚ as well as being the co-founder and current Chairman and Chief Software Architect of Microsoft. As stated in the The American Spectator‚ “As young men born in the same year (1955)‚ they set out

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    continued for 381 days‚ a little over a year‚ until bus segregation was declared unconstitutional. The Montgomery Bus Boycott started a wave of nonviolent protest against the segregation between whites and blacks. Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1‚ 1955 at 7:00 pm‚ because she refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white man to sit down. She was sitting in the

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    casualties the nation had sustained. In all likeliness‚ the US may have thought that “nuclear diplomacy” would be enough to quell the USSR if the need arose. A decade later the USSR had displayed its very own jet-bomber called the Mya-4 “Bison”. In 1955‚ an American air force attache‚ had observed twice the number of Bisons that were estimated to have been made. This jet-bomber was far more capable of inflicting injury upon the US than the Tu-4‚ and to further the anxiety of the US‚ the USSR had

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    Authors: Jacob Edwards‚ Cameron Londergan‚ Peyton Mills‚ Alex Moore‚ Caleb Nesbitt Water Quality of Lake Hartwell Lake Hartwell and the accompanying dam built on the Savannah River‚ were built between the years 1955-1963 and 1955-1959‚ respectively‚ by the US Army Corps of Engineers. The man-made lake was constructed for the purpose of producing hydro-power and as a navigation project‚ but now its purpose has evolved to include wild-life habitats‚ water quality‚ and general recreation. Although

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    Dr. King was born on January 15‚ 1929 to Alberta Williams and michael Luther King sir. Dr. King’s mother was a teacher and his father was a minister and activist. Martin was the second of three children and grew up in a large Victorian house on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta‚ Georgia. In 1934‚ after visiting Europe‚ michael king sr. changed his and his sons names in honor of the sixteenth- century German church reformer Martin Luther. Kingś house was about a block from Ebenezer Baptist Church.His maternal

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    History 30 mark exam question How far was peaceful protest responsible for the success of the civil rights movement in the years 1955-64? Peaceful protesting was a method used excessively between the period of 1955-64 (and prior to this) during the civil rights movement. It was used to bring about a “de jure” (legal change) and “de facto” (practical change) change for the rights of black Americans. Peaceful protesting was used as a means of theoretically “fighting” against unjust laws following the

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