1955-1975

By James.P.Jones
  • Period: to

    Baby Boom

    an influx in pregnancies after the men came home from war

  • Warsaw Pact

  • Ambiguous Order of 1955

    Schools to be desegregated
  • Period: to

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the bus.

  • In God We Trust

    Unites States made this the motto of the country

  • McCarthy Dies

  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference

    Created by Martin Luther King Jr. to coordinate civil rights groups in the South

  • Civil Right Act of 1957

    created a department of Justice Civil Rights Commission in charge of investigating claims of racial discrimination

  • Sputnik I Launched Into Space

  • John Birch Society

    radical anticommunists

  • Fidel Castro Took Over Cuba

  • Soviet Union Launch Luna II

    first man made object to touch the moon

  • Near-Total Trade Embargo

  • Unites States and Cuba Broke Diplomatic Relations

  • Nation Indian Youth Council Formed

  • Presidential Commission on the Status of Women

    established by John F Kennedy

  • Bay of Pigs

  • First Black University Student

    James Meredith became first black student at University of Mississippi

  • March on Washington

  • "I Have A Dream Speech"

    Speech given by Martin Luther King Jr. in hopes of racial equality

  • Kennedy Assassination

  • FHA Established

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    No segregation in public places

  • Pres. Johnson reform "Great Society"

    "end of proverb and racial injustice"

  • Opportunity Act (EOA)

  • USS Midway fired on by North Vietnamese Ships

  • "Bloody Sunday"

    peaceful activists march for black rights to vote and white cops beat and attack them

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    abolish voting discrimination part of Lydon Johnson's Great Society

  • Beginning of Ground War in Vietnam

  • Cuban Adjustment Act

    Cuban war refugees could become permanent United States residents signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson

  • Black Panthers

    formed by Haley Newman and Bobby Seale

  • Crusade for Justice

  • National Welfare Rights Organization

  • Summer of Love

    first outdoor concert promoting peace

  • Alexander vs. Holmes

    forced all schools to desegregate

  • Woodstock

  • National Environmental Policy Act

  • Earth Day