The Space Race Begins. It is 1957 and the U.S. and the Soviet Union are locked into the Cold War. The Soviet Union has just launched the world's first satellite, Sputnik. Fearful of Soviet military control of space, the Americans quickly ready a rocket.
<span>Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from
Birmingham Jail" declared that the white moderate had to set aside their fear
of disorder and promise to ethnic justice. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" for the local clergymen.</span>