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06.01.2008 - John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th President on January 20, 1961. In his inaugural speech he spoke of the need for all Americans to be active citizens. "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country," he said. He also asked the nations of the world to join together to fight what he called the "common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself." President Kennedy, together with his wife and two...

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[...] was racial discrimination. The U.S. Supreme Court had ruled in 1954 that segregation in public schools would no longer be permitted. Black and white children, [...]

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The United States has welcomed more immigrants than any other country. Over time the term ‘melting pot’ has developed to describe the phenomenon of many different cultures fusing together to create something new.

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[...] 1963, that the US government gave in to pressure caused by political activity in the form of racial awareness raising and demonstrations, and passed a law prohibiting all kinds of racial discrimination [...]

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20.02.2008 - "Let me start with my parents. They were 30 when they moved to this country. She was pregnant with me. They didn’t have a thing. I bet they never imagined that their loud-mouthed kid would end up standing here today,” declared Naheed Nenshi in his inaugural address following the acceptance of his elected position of mayor of Calgary.

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[...] Until the 1960s, the Canadian immigration policies also discriminated against homosexuals and people suffering from mental disabilities. It was not until 1962 that racial discrimination was eliminated. [...]

http://www.planet-schule.de/wissenspool/teens-in-canada/inhalt/hintergrund/canada-a-cultural-mosaic.html

17.01.2008 - Martin Luther King, Jr. - Ansprache während des Marsches auf Washington, D.C., 28. August 1963 I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Fivescore years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

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[...] life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination; one hundred years later, the Negro lives on a [...]

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