1960's and public protests

By AnthonyS12

  • March on Washington

    250,000 people attend the civil rights march "March on Washington"

  • Civil Rights act of 1964

    President Johnson signed the civil rights act of 1964

  • Selma to Montgomery march

    Civil rights picketers marched from Selma to Montgomery on a protest

  • Malcolm X assassinated

  • First black Congressman

  • First supreme court justice that is black

    Thurgood Marshall was the first black supreme court justice

  • Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated

    James Earl Ray convicted of his murder

  • Nixon re-elected

    Nixon recaptures white house from democrats

  • Apollo mission complete

    Neil Armstrong gets back from the moon

  • US withdraws from war

    The US withdrew from the vietnam war