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Sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks on 1 December 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. -
Dwight Eisenhower reelected. -
Hawaii and Alaska added to the United States. -
U.S. sends military advisors to Vietnam. -
Permits the President to impose tariffs based on a recommendation by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce. -
John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. CST in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. -
Lyndon B. Johnson. -
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. -
Prohibits racial discrimination in voting. -
Fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel. -
Richard Nixon. -
Bars the states and the federal government from setting a voting age higher than eighteen. -
Designed to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex. -
Richard Nixon reelected. -
The U.S withdraws from Vietnam. -
Richard Nixon resigns.