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NCA was created.
February 1 - 4 black college students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College sat down at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in North Carolina and refused to leave, they are then allowed to stay at the counter, but are refused service. The sit-in captured the media attention and soon spread all over the south. -
NCA was spreading.
The sit-ins spread to 15 cities in 5 southern states and becomes hugely known. -
SNCC is founded.
Young black activists and students then go on to found the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee is founded at Shaw University, providing young blacks with a place in the civil rights movement. The SNCC later grows into a more radical organization, especially under the leadership of Stokely Carmichael, 1966 through 1967. -
Civil Rights Act
President D. Eisenhower signs the Civil Right Act in 1960 -
Nuclear missile program.
President Kennedy initiates 17 billion dollar nuclear missile program, increases military aid to Indochina and announces the creation of the Peace Corps. -
First Man in Space.
Yuri Gagarin of the USSR becomes the first man in space. -
U.S. Invades!
the United States invades Cuba at the Bay of Pigs and the mission is a failure. -
CORE Starts
the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) begins sending student volunteers on bus trips to test the implementation of new laws prohibiting segregation in interstate travel facilities. One of the first two groups of "freedom riders," encounters its first problem two weeks later, when a mob in Alabama sets the riders' bus on fire. The program continues and by the end of the summer 1,000 volunteers, black and white, have participated. The Freedom Riders force integration of Interstate and Travel faci -
Berlin Wall
East German border guards begin construction of Berlin Wall. The Berlin Wall physically seperated Communist East Gernmany and Democratic West Germany. -
U.S. starts nuclear testing.
The United States starts underground nuclear testing. -
Pres. Ken advice to Americans
President Kennedy advises Americans to build fallout shelters just incase anything happens. -
Anti-nuclear protest
Boston SANE & fledgling SDS hold first anti-nuclear march on Washington with 4000-8000 protesters -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviets establish missile bases in Cuba, Kennedy orders a naval blockade to divert any missiles from arriving in Cuba. -
Stage Sit-ins
SCLC and volunteers stage sit-ins and mass protests in Birmingham, Alabama. -
MLK goes to Jail
Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy are arrested and go to jail in Birmingham during the protests, King then writes his Letter from a Birmingham Jail. -
Civil Rights Bill
President Kennedy proposes the Civil Rights Bill. -
NAACP secretary assassinated.
In Jackson,Mississippi, the state's NAACP field secretary, 37-year-old Medgar Evers is assassinated outside his home. Byron De La Beckwith is tried twice in 1964, both trials resulted in hung juries. Only thirty years later is he convicted for murdering Evers. -
MLK - I have a dream speech.
The March for Jobs and Freedom or more commonly known as the March on Washington attracts over 200,000 people to Washington, D.C. With the people concentrated around the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech. -
Nuclear Testing Banned.
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty is denied by senate. -
NTTreaty takes effect.
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty takes effect. -
Kennedy assassinated.
President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald. Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as President on Air Force One with First Lady Jackie Kennedy present. -
Declares "War on Poverty"
President Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the State of the Union address thus initiating plans for his Great Society -
Civil Rights Act 1964
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964, making segregation in public facilities and discrimination in employment illegal. -
Food Stamp Bill
President Johnson signs food stamp bill -
MLK won Nobel Prize
Announced that Martin Luther King Jr. has won the the Nobel Peace Prize -
Civil Rights demonstration
Police break-up a Civil Rights demonstration of 600 in Montgomery, Alabama -
Anti-War protests
Anti-Vietnam war protests in NY bring out 25,000 on 5th Ave. Other protests in 7 US cities and 7 foreign cities. -
US treaty
US, USSR, UK sign treaty banning nuclear weapons in space -
US send troops
25,000 US troops sent to the Cambodian border -
anti war protest
Anti-Vietnam War protest. 400,000 march from Central Park to UN. Speeches by Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael and Dr. Benjamin Spoc -
KKK members convicted
Seven KKK members are convicted of conspiracy in the 1964 murders of three civil rights worker -
Kennedy president?
Robert F. Kennedy announces candidacy for President -
Rioting for Racial Views
Rioting throughout the summer in the US. Blacks begin protesting in Chicago, Brooklyn, Cleveland and Baltimore -
protest war 500,000
500,000 + march in Wash. DC for peace. Largest antiwar rally in U.S. history. Speakers: McCarthy, McGovern, Coretta King, Dick Gregory, Leonard Bernstein. Singers: Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul, & Mary, John Denver, Mitch Miller, touring cast of Hair 1969 -
First Draft
First draft lottery since W.W.II held in NYC -
Black Panther Raid
There is a raid on the Black Panther headquarters in LA resulting in a four hour shoot-out
