1955-1975

By connorpopeszku

  • Public School Growth

    Public Schools ordered to be set up quickly as of the Supreme Court's order (after Brown v. Board of Education)

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up seat

    Rosa Parks does not give up her bus seat which turned out to be the beginning of a boycott expressing that bus segregation laws were unconstitutional

  • First international telephone

    First working telephone that could go across oceans

  • First Civil Rights bill

    U.S. Congress approves first civil rights bill

  • First attempt of space satellite by U.S.

    U.S. attempts to send a satellite in to orbit unsuccessfully

  • Alaska becomes 49th State

    Alaska joins the United States

  • Hawaii becomes 50th State

    Hawaii joins the United States

  • The sit-ins

    National Civil Rights protest started by four black college students in North Carolina

  • Berlin Wall

    Construction of the Berlin Wall begins

  • Nuclear Treaty

    World Powers including the U.S., the Soviet Union, and Great Britain, agree to not test nuclear devices above ground.