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The 1960 Civil Rights Act introduced penalties to be levied against anybody who obstructed someone%u2019s attempt to register to vote or someone%u2019s attempt to actually vote. A Civil Rights Commission was created.
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he wins the election over Vice-President Richard Nixon.
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he also increases military aid to Indochina and announces the creation of the Peace Corps.
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the mission is a failure.
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when the underground nuclear device is buried at sufficient depth, the explosion may be contained, with no release of radioactive materials to the atmosphere.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba in the early 1960s during the Cold War.
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they are arrested and go to jail in Birmingham during the protests.
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the civil rights bill declares who are citizens of the United States, defines their rights, prescribes penalties for violating them, and provides the means of redress.
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the basic obligations for the ban treaty was not to carry out any nuclear weapon test explosion or any other nuclear explosion, and to prohibit and prevent any such nuclear explosion at any place under its jurisdiction or control.
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he was assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald
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President Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the State of the Union address thus initiating plans for his Great Society.
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the civil rights asct of 1964 was to make segregation in public facilities and discrimination in employment illegal.
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he was elected in a landslide, but conservatives take over the Republican Party and remain a force in the party.
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Malcolm X was a black nationalist and founder of the Organization of Afro-American Unity. It is believed the assailants are members of the Black Muslim faith, which Malcolm had recently abandoned.
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this making it easier for Southern blacks to register to vote. Literacy tests and other such requirements that tended to restrict black voting become illegal.
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Other protests in 7 US cities and 7 foreign cities.
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400,000 march from Central Park to UN. Speeches by Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael and Dr. Benjamin Spock.
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King was shot as he stood on the balcony outside his hotel room. Escaped convict James Earl Ray later pleads guilty to the crime.
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established in response to growing drug culture in the U.S.
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He had Spiro T. Agnew, as his Vice-President.
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Neil Armstrong is the first man to walk on the Moon.
