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I have had a Nokia 3600 Slide for just over a year now. I can turn it on or off etc. About half the buttons have decided to stop working and the phone keeps freezing. Could you (hopefully) tell me why it keeps freezing, and half the buttons dont work. I have dropped it a few times never massive...

·The Sit-ins started in Greensborough in North Carolina. ·Four black college students sat down and ordered food at a whites-only counter in Woolworth’s. ·Others joined these four students so that the scale of the protest grew rapidly and eventually the store was forced to close. ·Local police...

The freedom rides were designed to test a ruling by the Supreme Court, which had declared that segregation in bus and train stations that were used for inter state transport (transport which crossed state lines) was not allowed. The Freedom Ride left Washington DC on May 4th, 1961. They...

On the 1st of December 1955, Mrs. Rosa Parks, an African-American seamstress, was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for not standing and letting a white bus rider take her seat. It was an "established rule" in the American south (at that time) that African-American riders had to sit at the back of...

·On 5th September 1957 9 black children tried to go to a white school in Little Rock. They were sent home. ·On 23rd September when they tried again, a mob of 1,000 white people said they would lynch them if they went in. ·Only on 25th September did the children go to school-protected by 11,000...