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Greensboro Sit-In
Sitting for Justice: Woolworth's Lunch Counter four African American college students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina -
Bay of Pigs
President Eisenhower gave the CIA permission to secretly train Cuban exiles for an invasion of Cuba. The CIA and the exiles hoped it would trigger a mass uprising that would overthrow Castro. Kennedy learned of the plan only nine days after his election. Although he had doubts, he approved it. This started the tension between the U.S.A and Communist countries -
JFK elected
Defeats Richard M. Nixon to become the 35th president of the United States. Kennedy wins by a margin of 2/10 of 1 percent with 49.75 percent of the votes. Nixon receives 49.55 percent. -
16th Street Bombing
On Sep 15, 1963 a bombing took place which killed 4 young African American girls and injured 14 others. Also two boys Virgil Ware age 14 and Johnny Robinson 16 were also killed due to ensuing riots. -
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Crowds of people crowded the street in hopes of getting a glimpse of the Kennedy's car in Dallas Texas The car turned off Main Street at Dealey Plaza around 12:30 p.m. As it was passing the Texas School Book Depository, gunfire suddenly reverberated in the plaza. Bullets struck the president's neck and head. At 1:00 p.m. , John F. Kennedy was pronounced dead -
Malcolm X is assassinated
On Feb. 21, 1965, Malcolm X was about to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem when he was shot and killed by assassins identified as Black Muslims. -
Black Panther
In Oakland California, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The Panthers practiced militant self-defense of minority communities against the U.S. government, and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community based programs -
My Lai Massacre
The My Lai Massacre occured when an American unit was sent out on a search-and-destroy mission in an area suspected of harboring Viet Cong. As many as 500 Vietnamese were killed. The Massacre was kept hidden from the American public for over a year. Lieutenant William Calley was the only American soldier at My Lai to be found guilty of any crimes. He was charged with systematically killing unarmed women, children, and the elderly, and was originally sentenced to life in prison -
Martin Luther King Jr is assassinated
At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was standing on the balcony in front of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, when he was shot by a sniper. King was taken to a nearby hospital and was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. -
Robert Kennedy is assassinated
Early morning on June 5, 1968, shortly after delivering a speech to in the California primary, Kennedy was shot in a kitchen corridor outside the ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. He died the next day at age 42.