Elsa continues her googling

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Elsa has been taking it easy all day but her easy day is doing more Google searches. If she’s going to create a story about Rip then she better get more history information to use. Time to take out her laptop again.

‘May 17, 1954: Brown vs. Board of Education (Washington D.C.) - In a landmark case involving Linda Brown of Topeka, Kansas, who had to cross a railroad track to reach an all-black elementary school even though an all-white school was closer, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the segregated school system was unconstitutional on the basis of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. The clause would be used again by the courts to reverse state-level racial segregation practices and ordinances.

Dec. 1, 1955: Parks Starts a Movement (Montgomery, Alabama) - Rosa Parks makes history by refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus. The arrest of Parks for insisting to remain seated leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the ascent of a young pastor named Martin Luther King, Jr., as a local activist leader to advance the civil rights cause. A successful federal lawsuit by the NAACP against the city leads to the desegregation of the Montgomery bus system on Dec. 21 of the following year.’ 

Elsa never realized that there were such racial problems in the past. She is happy that times have changed, but have they really changed? She starts thinking about what she saw on TV a little over a week ago. Rioters invaded the capital building in Washington, DC. She has such mixed feelings about everything that’s been happening in the world in the past year. Some are definitely racial related, although the police who were at fault wouldn’t have agreed with it being racial related. She decides that she has to stop thinking about these things because she has a lot of googling to do. Time to get back on track. 

‘Jan. 31, 1958: US Launches First Satellite (Cape Canaveral, Florida) - The United States successfully launches Explorer 1, three months after the Soviet Union sent its first satellite, Sputnik, into orbit. The two superpowers would go on to send more satellites into space, creating a Cold War space race to build ever more sophisticated orbital communications devices.

Jan. 1, 1959: Castro Takes Over Cuba (Havana) - U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista flees Havana as Fidel Castro's forces advance on the Cuban capital. Days later, rebels led by Ché Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos enter the city, followed two days later by Castro's forces, who quickly consolidate power in Cuba, establishing a communist government in the Caribbean's largest country. ’ (Source) 

Let’s continue - Tiffi stops to visit her father

Start at the beginning - Rip begins teaching world history