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Truman ends segregation in the armed forces
Segregation in the military was ended by Executive Order 9981. This somewhat sets the stage for the Civil Rights movement which occurs less than a decade later. -
C. Wright Mills publishes White Collar
C. Wright Mills publishes White Collar which was a study of the American middle class. -
Immigration and Nationality Act
The Immigration and Nationality Act removes racial and ethnic requirements to become a United States Citizen. -
Eisenhower elected as president
Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower wins the presidential election of 1952 against the democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson. -
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
Eisenhower created the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. He appointed Oveta Culp Hobby, who was the first woman to be appointed to a cabinet position in a Republican Administration. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
The court case involving segregation in schools was decided and segregation within schools was declared unconsititutional on the grounds that it "generates a feeling of inferiority" and causes damage in "their hearrts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone." -
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man and in doing so, violated a local ordinance requiring African Americans to give up their seats to white men and women. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott starts
The Montgomery Bus Boycott starts in response to the arrest of Rosa Parks. -
Highway Act of 1956
A piece of legislation that gave funds to create a 41,000 mile interstate highway system across the country. This act created the highway system that we know of today and connected all of the major cities. -
C. Wright Mills publishes Power Elite
C. Wright Mills publishes Power Elite which was a book that explored the Military, Coorporate, and Political aspects that influenced an ran society. The book wanrs about manipulation, from these three branches, of the American people. -
Eisenhower wins reelection
Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower was elected to a second term as President against the Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson. -
Revolution in Cuba
Fidel Castro and others of communist beliefs overthrow the government of Cuba and eventually establish a communist regime that lasts to this day. -
Martin Luther King, Jr. creates the SCLC
Matin Luther King, Jr. creates the Southern Christain Leadership Conference, which was aimed at ending segregation. -
Arkansas National Guard called to Little Rock Central High School
Governor Orval Faubas called upon the Arkansas National Guard to help the protesters protesting agaisnt the admittance of 9 African American students into Little Rock's Central High School -
Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957 into law
President Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957 into law which is the first Civil Rights Act passed since the reconstruction period. The Civil Rights Act of 1957 gave voting rights to African American. -
Sputnik launced into orbit
Sputnink, a small man made (and soviet made) satellite, was launched into space around the earth. The satellite had nothing more than a few antennas, a thermometer, and a radio transmitter that changed it's tone when the temperature changed. -
Explorer 1
The first sucessful American satellite launched into orbit. Further escalating the Space Race. -
NASA created by American government
The American government enters the space race with the formation of the National Air and Space Administration. -
National Defence Education Act
Congress passes the National Defence Education Act to influence education more and to emphasize math and science in response to the Soviet Sputnik launch. -
SNCC was founded by some college students
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was founded by and for college students in the fight against segregation. SNCC started as informal meetings at Shaw University in Raleigh.
