01/08/2007 08:28:00←Fidel Castro--- successful in ousting Batista (Cubans and US not happy)←←Bay of Pigs—tried to train ex-Cuban nationals; very unsuccessful (1961)←←Communists put of Berlin Wall←←Civil rights movement:←13th amendment: no more slavery in the US←14th amendment:• all persons in US are citizens of the US and their state•no American citizen can be deprived of their civil rights without due process of law •1866←←15th amendment:•1869•color or race can not revoke voting rights•Brown vs. board of education (1955)←←Reasons for segregation:•Jim Crow Laws (in South)•Plessey vs. Ferguson←←Reasons why segregation happened:•Brown vs. board of education•1955—Emmett Till death