the 1960's
The 60's was a time period where the Civil Rights Movement started. There were many protests based on the rights of African-American citizens. They would have silent protests, which was when they would do little things to show that they are just as equal as the white men. One of the protests that was a big thing were sit ins. Sit ins were when a couple of African-American college students would go in a cafe and it at the bar and asked to be served. They would continue to sit there until they were kicked out, but other than that they would stay even if they got food thrown at them or racial comments. This time period also had the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Bay of Pigs was an unsuccessful attempt to invade Cuba and take out Fidel Castro. The Cuban Missile Crisis was when the US found out that Cuban had nuclear weapons that were being supplied to them by Russia, sot hey had many meeting with Russia about taking them out, but Russia only agreed to take them out if the US took their nuclear weapons out of Turkey.